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Races. But aside from the happy excitement of playing host to such a notable stranger for a few days Hawaiians had another, deeper reason for being interested in the President's coming. Last year he had tried to take away the territory's cherished right to home-rule, to appoint a mainlander as its Governor. His ostensible reason was that it was hard to find, as the law required, a good man resident on the islands. But all the world knew that the President was thinking of the Massie rape & murder case of 1931-32, of the racial seethings that...
Balked by Congress in his effort to name a mainland Democrat to a $10,000-a-year job, the President was in no hurry to appoint a new Governor. Not until he had been in office nearly a year did he finally pick a successor to Lawrence McCully Judd, descendant of a Yankee medical missionary who went to the Sandwich Islands a century ago. Then he appointed the next best thing to the kind of man he originally wanted?a Democrat who had lived on the islands only 17 years...
Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler had telephoned from Munich to the Nazi Governor of Hanover, an apparently blameless young man with a good war record, Herr Viktor Lutze. "I appoint you to succeed Roehm!" barked the Chancellor into the telephone. "You are the new Storm Troop Chief of Staff...
Since the Exchange Act did not make clear that the President had power to designate a commission chairman, Mr. Roosevelt did not appoint one. But it was generally assumed that the man he named to the five-year term was his choice for that No. 1 job. The newly-appointed commissioners met in Washington next day and formally elected him chairman. That man was Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Recommendations, This week the Federal Radio Commission is absorbed into the new Federal Communications Commission whose seven members (four Democrats, three Republicans) the President is about to appoint. Pleading for "editorial discretion" among the new appointees, Pundit Walter Lippmann. who works for Mr. Reid's Herald Tribune but does not always agree with him or it, earnestly recommended to the President : "The best commissioners would be men of the kind qualified to be head of a popular university or editor of an independent newspaper. Such men can be found. But they are not likely to be found among...