Word: appointement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Congressmen were shocked by an announcement from the Navy Department. On account of the reduction of the fleet under the Five-Power Treaty, the number of students at Annapolis must also be reduced. Accordingly, Senators and Congressmen may each appoint only three instead of the five embryo officers to the Naval Academy next year...
...clean them all up'; that the sudden cessation of my anti-Jew campaign was due to my sensing 'too much anti-semitic feeling.' Mr. Benson also says that apropos of nothing I pointed to one of my men and said: There is the kind of man I would appoint Secretary of the Navy...
Meanwhile Quezon is planning to come to this country to protest to President Harding, and General Wood will appoint a temporary cabinet until the Legislature meets in the Fall...
Secretary Hoover proposed a plan to appoint additional Assistant Secretaries of various departments, who would reside in Alaska and take care of its problems on the spot. Many Alaskans look upon this proposal with suspicion, however, on the grounds that it would tend to bureaucracy, of which the Territory has already had too much. In brief, no cure-alls have been discovered to date...
...Healy, " squat and square as the first Napoleon," had given a newspaper interview, in which he pointed to the continued refusal of Ulster to appoint a boundary commissioner to cooperate with the Tree State and Great Britain in determining the line between North and South. He denounced the Belfast authorities for keeping over 400 Free State sympathizers interned " on nothing but suspicion," claiming that many had been arrested in order that the public offices, held by them under the Imperial Government, might be given nominees of the Ulster Government...