Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week New Yorkers rubbed their eyes at finding the names Walker-Roosevelt-La Guardia tied together again. After lunch at the White House, Mayor LaGuardia flew back to Manhattan and, as he explained upon landing, at 7,000 feet up in the air it suddenly occurred to him to appoint James Walker "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of Manhattan's giant cloak & suit industry. Salary: $20,000. Gravely David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and ardent pro-Roosevelt campaigner, hailed James Walker's "wide executive experience" as fitting him for the complex...
...what a good job Hitler was doing in Germany. So three weeks ago Prince Friedrich was moved to an ordinary internment camp. Last week London learned that the King had been graciously pleased to discharge the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury from his sinecure on May 10 last and appoint the Duke of Hamilton & Brandon to be Lord Steward...
...Vatican in return agreed to appoint only bishops acceptable to Portugal, to regulate missionary activities in the Portuguese colonies, added that "the Church . . . does not propose to take over or even to protect any function that belongs to Caesar, whoever he may be." New Problems. Both for the Catholic Church and for the democracies the continuation of this policy, if fascism makes good its hold on Europe, promised to raise new difficulties. To a Catholic-Fascist-Latin bloc-such as might eventually be formed by Italy, Spain, Petain's France and Portugal-the Church could...
...morning after he made up his mind, Warren contributed a final, typical gesture. At 6 a.m. he phoned the members of his district's Congressional committee, received their promise to appoint his longtime secretary, balding little Herbert Bonner, as his successor, thus saving the jobs of his own appointees. Then, with mind at ease, he accepted...
...York City's Board of Higher Education, which runs four municipal colleges (C. C. N. Y., Hunter, Brooklyn and Queens), is unafraid. It braved the wrath of Bishop William T. Manning and other moralists last spring by appointing Bertrand Russell a C. C. N. Y. professor.*Last week it again was rash. It prepared to appoint as president of C. C. N. Y., one of the nation's biggest colleges (25,810 students, day and evening), Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of small (550 students), progressive Reed College, Portland...