Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds of the 418 delegates. A resolution was adopted calling upon President Hoover to appoint a national committee to deal more effectively with joblessness. (The President's Cabinet Commission was named 48 hours later...
...back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post he quit last November when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown persuaded Governor Myers Cooper to appoint him to the Senate, vice Elder Statesman Theodore Elijah Burton, deceased. He comes up for election next month...
...selection of the committees an attempt was made to secure representatives from as many parts of the country as possible, as well as to appoint men capable of filling the positions. All appointments have been made by the dormitory proctors themselves...
...Each club shall, annually before Commencement Day, appoint a graduate representative to serve throughout the following year on an Advisory Committee, which committee shall elect its own chairman, who need not be a representative appointed by a club, and shall consider matters arising under this agreement and such a modification thereof as may seem desirable. The powers of this committee shall be advisory only, except that it shall be the duty of this committee to take suitable steps to make this agreement known to all persons concerned...
Commissioner Coulter was chief economic adviser to the old Commission. Commissioners Page and Dennis had both served on earlier tariff boards. The question of why the President did not appoint bigger and better men to elevate the new Commission above the old, as he had promised, was answered by the fact that a score of distinguished economists and business experts had declined appointment for fear of personal abuse during confirmation by the Senate. Unappointed was the third Democratic commissioner. Democrats immediately charged President Hoover with "rank and inexcusable partisanship" in holding up this last appointment while a high-tariff Republican...