Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, for a few breathless hours, it seemed that Leon Henderson might return to the national scene. From Washington and Atlantic City came reports that New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison might appoint Leon to succeed New Jersey's late Senator W. Warren Barbour. Said Leon Henderson, practically wrapping the toga about his bulky frame: "I was urged to run in 1942 and always have understood that I would be highly satisfactory to Governor Edison, to labor, and to other groups, including Mayor Hague...
Sumner Welles's view on foreign policy (TIME, Oct. 25) sounds more realistic and more in keeping with our ideals than any other plan proposed so far. If someone with experience in domestic administration like ex-Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota would promise to appoint him Secretary of State, they might well win the 1944 election and give us a top-notch government...
...power covers all Europe. Cordell Hull, of course, cannot and will not assert that these forces are or ever may be forces opposed to the Red Army. But Joseph Stalin himself, by his intense interest in the inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission-to which he took care to appoint one of his most formidable men-has already testified to the potency of American presence in Europe...
...State will appoint "in each significant center of operation ... a Director of Economic Operations" (responsible to Secretary Hull after the military moves...
...Brazil would appoint a commission to study the possibility of ceding to Bolivia a port on the Paraguay River, taking in exchange territory in another area...