Word: appointer
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...effect; they crystallized an opposition to the ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...
...University of the State of New York has no campus, faculty or student body. It consists merely of a Board of Regents who appoint a Commissioner of Education and administer the State's public educational system. Though the University, established in 1784, is the oldest continuous educational agency in the U. S., it did not receive its present broad powers until 1904. Before then it looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets...
...cavalier fashion, if not to the honor, at least to the glory, of the Democratic party. There is in further background the Portland postmaster of happy memory, whose protest against Lord Woodrow and demand for back salary piqued the Supreme Court into its historic rumble that the power to appoint connotes the power to remove, though a hundred Pendletons block the path...
...Because the University of Virginia had been without a full president for nearly two and one-half years, alumni, faculty and students lately began prodding the Board of Visitors to appoint one. Most of them urged the name of Dr. John Lloyd Newcomb who had assisted the late Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman since 1926 and who became acting president upon his death (TIME, May 11, 1931). To arguments that Virginia should get a nationally-known president they replied that Harvard with James Bryant Conant and Princeton with Harold Willis Dodds had taken comparatively little-known men from their own ranks...
...decided to appoint a sub-committee, which would make all arrangements for this institute, choosing a suitable time and place and securing speakers, thoroughly familiar with the NRA program from its inception, so that the professors may hear informative, educational and authoritative talks on the subject. Thus they would be presented with an authentic interpretation of the program for their own benefit and for the benefit of their students...