Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill made its points firmly: 1) the President would appoint and Congress would confirm the UNO delegate (probably earnest, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to whom the job has long been promised); 2) the delegate, with ambassadorial rank, would act only on presidential order, never on his own initiative; 3) the President would be empowered, through his delegate and without asking Congress, to send a limited number of U.S. troops anywhere...
...Secretary of State James F. Byrnes last week announced at a press conference that he had asked nine nations for advice on Japan. He had invited them to appoint delegates to a Far Eastern Advisory Commission which will convene in Washington on Oct. 23. The nine: Britain, China, Russia, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, the Philippines. Others, notably India, may be invited later...
...help the Government do its big job, the committee recommended the appoint ment of 1) a President's commission on full employment, composed of a "small working body of the ablest men to be found"; and 2) a joint congressional committee on full employment. They would work out a "coordinated Government program for high level employment," lay down the policies to carry...
...avoid expense and useless trips for persons [who are] ready to come great distances to the grotto . . . [and] desirous to enlighten public opinion on this matter, we have decided to appoint a board of inquiry, whose conclusion permits us [now] to declare the following...
Last week President Truman called Harold Burton to the White House, told him that he was going to appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court...