Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen who are elected tomorrow will be split into two committees, a Smoker Committee and a Jubilee Committee, by Eugene D. Keith '42, Council Representative for Freshman Affairs, and George Putnam '43, Sophomore Adviser for Freshman Affairs. A chairman will be appointed for each committee and he will have the power, which he may or may not exercise, to appoint three additional members to his committee...
...Goaded for months by critics demanding a single defense administrator, the President's answer was to appoint as heads of the Office of Production Management with equal powers...
...soon as the fortunate ten have been elected to the Smoker and Jubilee committees by their classmates, the Union Committee will assign them positions. Chairmen are empowered to appoint extra men to their committees under the rulings adopted last year when '43 voted down annual elections of officers...
Murray's own solution to these problems: "Industry Councils." He would have the President appoint councils for each vital industry made up of an equal number of representatives from management and union labor, with one representative of Government to act as chairman. Immediate objectives of these councils: coordination of industries and labor to speed defense. Broader objective: a revision and coordination of the whole out-of-joint U. S. economy. Murray recently took his plan to Franklin Roosevelt (who calls him Phil) and discussed it for an hour and a half. But the President was a "very tired...
Personal Envoy Hopkins was soon sitting in the U. S. Embassy at the desk vacated by Joe Kennedy. To correspondents he admitted that he knew whom the President will shortly appoint as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, but "it won't be me." After these preliminaries Mr. Hopkins saw new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and got to the point of his visit in three hours spent with Winston Churchill, another half-hour with George VI. Said Personal Envoy Hopkins afterward: "I have no misgivings about the outcome of this war. There...