Word: appointer
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...right, we'll get you and get you good!' . . ." How put a stop to gangster pressagentry? Editor Bingay proposed an ambitious scheme: "The only way to get at the publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American...
...appoint a Coordinator of Railroads, to affect economics and to find means to prevent what appeared to be on-coming financial ruin...
...appoint what is known as the Tennessee Valley Authority to include completion of the huge Muscle Shoals project and to develop on a tremedous scale the natural resources of the Tennessee Valey--an admittedly bold national experiment...
...four years President Hoover named 78 ambassadors and ministers of whom 32 were career men. In less than five months the President has named 23 ambassadors and ministers of whom nine were career men. Yet to be elected is a President who will appoint a career man to one of the service's four biggest posts-London, Paris, Berlin, Rome. Under Hoover three professionals became ambassadors and under Roosevelt, so far, the same number have received that rank. In Belgium, Greece, Spain and Rumania the President turned out career men to put in political prot...
...suffering last week much as was the U. S. before President Roosevelt's inauguration. Paupered farmers recently forced the Government to forbid foreclosures temporarily. Bills to inflate the national currency have several times been before Congress. In this emergency last week President Justo temporized, unwilling to appoint either an inflationist or an anti-inflationist as Finance Minister. He turned the office over to a virtual caretaker, Minister of Justice & Education Manuel de Iriondo, making him Finance Minister ad interim. To test public opinion the President announced that Argentina will continue to follow the policy of "No moratorium, no waste...