Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later the Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors. To many New Yorkers, the board itself, which last year tried to appoint Bertrand Russell as a professor at City College, looked Red. Its chairman is liberal Author-Editor Ordway Tead (Harper). After five hours' debate, the board emerged with a unanimous and unprecedented resolution: "It is the purpose of the Board of Higher Education not to retain as members of the collegiate staffs members of any Communist. Fascist or Nazi group or society, or to retain any individual who, or member of any group which advocates, advises...
...built until 1833, three years after the earliest handless picture. Another flaw in the church excuse is that President Weber put a sundial on the building in 1810, so the clock must have run down before then. Anyway, the archive record says that the Board of Overseers was to appoint a committee to see that the churchmen kept their clock right. No one living has seen hide nor hair of any such committee members. If they exist, they aren't on, the ball either...
...Convention, Author Streit would set up an Inter-Continental Congress with one representative for each member democracy, plus an additional representative for every 5,000,000 inhabitants. (The U. S. would have 27 votes, the remainder 22.) Until direct elections of intercontinental congressmen could be arranged, the President could appoint them, with Congressional approval, or let Congress pick them from a list of Presidential recommendations. (Streit suggests Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, James M. Cox, asks readers to suggest other names.) This Union would be empowered to handle foreign relations, establish a common currency, common citizenship, common communications in the Federal...
...primary qualification for a college professor, it is to be assumed, is teaching ability. The failure of the University to appoint Assistant Professor John Potter to a permanent position means that it will lose one of its most competent and inspiring teachers in History and History and Literature...
Preoccupied delegates voted at the convention's end to appoint Velazquez Secretary General. But their hearts were not in it. All were too busy digesting the knowledge that President Avila Camacho would stand no nonsense from labor, wondering about labor's next move...