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Word: appointed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When these ten men have been elected, according to the new plan the Student Council Representatives on Freshman affairs "shall then be empowered to assign the elected members to the two Committees, to appoint the remaining members of each Committee, and to select a Chairman of each Committee from the complete membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Vote Down Election of Officers | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...long as Mexico has had elections it has had pistoleros ("gunmen"). These bravos are sometimes paid, and sometimes just appoint themselves, to "support" respective candidates for office. During political off-seasons they keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pistoleros' Progress | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...other alternative is that the Union Committee, in conjunction with Kendric N. Marshall '21, Secretary of the Union; and Langden P. Marvin '41, and Harvey C. Taylor, Jr. '42, Student Council Freshman advisers, shall directly appoint those heads and their committees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Will Vote February 20 On Election Of Officers | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

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