Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president, like a schoolboy, is required to do certain tasks in a certain length of time. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act set forth that within 90 days of its passage President Hoover must appoint a new Tariff Commission of three Democrats, three Republicans (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.). Moreover the President, bold in defense of the unpopular bill, promised 1) to appoint more expert and impartial economists than had composed the old Commission, 2) to issue educational bulletins from time to time explaining the tariff and its beneficent "flexibility...
Last week the President's 90 days expired. He had not got his tariff lesson very well. He had been able to find and appoint only five of his six tariff commissioners. They were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...
...commendations were formed for admission to the Master and Head Tutor Chief among these was the decision to appoint a House Library committee, consisting of five undergraduates and three tutors, which will assist in the management of the House Library. The Library, which is already open for use by members of the House during the day, will consist of about 5000 volumes at first, with provision for growth to an ultimate size of over 20,000 volumes. Besides the main room, which has shelves for about 5000 books, there is a stack room large enough to hold 4000 more. Each...
Shrewd Uriburu. Having talked by radio fortnight ago to London papers, shrewd President Uriburu spoke last week to New York newsorgans ("I will appoint an ambassador to the U. S. within 24 hours after recognition of my Government"),* and later over a broadcast hook-up to the entire U. S. in Spanish...
...City police made the Tongs accept two ineffective peace treaties. Killings continued, baffling police. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle decided to set up his own "Benevolent Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed to let New York City's Irish-U. S. Police Commissioner, Edward Pierce Mulrooney, arbitrate any case decided by the committee to the dissatisfaction of the disputants, thus gave him supreme judicial...