Word: appointer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Government prepared to appoint regional commissioners with power to administer their respective areas if the central administration was disorganized. Adjutant General Colonel Liam Hayes issued a call for 10,000 volunteers within a week. Full-page newspaper advertisements blared out the need for 400,000 volunteers to supplement the regular Army's 70,000 and 120,000 volunteers already under arms. "Everyone who can walk should join the Army," urged Dail members...