Word: appointer
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...charges against Judge Louderback: 1) he dismissed a receiver who refused to appoint as his attorney a lawyer of the judge's choosing; 2) he granted excessive fees to Samuel Shortridge Jr. in a receivership later voided on appeal; 3) he appointed for Fageol Motor Co. a receiver whom he knew to be incompetent and unqualified; 4) he threw Prudential Holding Co. into receivership and appointed the same incompetent receiver "for the sole purpose of benefiting and enriching his personal friends and associates." A subsidiary accusation was that, to dodge a divorce suit in San Francisco, he established...
...many years it has been the practice of the University, and of the Mathematics department, in particular, to appoint candidates for the Ph.D. degree to part-time instructorships. There are two considerations which, especially at the present time, militate strongly against the renewal of these appointments...
...always wishes that a change of Administration might come when everything is quiet internally and externally. But world events do not wait on American presidential elections. The Democrats come into office at a time of world crisis and the new men whom they appoint must deal instantly with questions of vital interest to our country. Let us hope that they may be wise men, so conscious of their own lack of intimate knowledge of these questions that they will act conservatively, for the moment at least, strictly along the lines of traditional American foreign policy which is neither Democratic...
...World War we took our Constitution, wrapped it up and laid it on the shelf until it was over. ... If we're going to get anywhere in this business of getting out of the Depression-of using public funds to stimulate business, we've got to appoint a Director General of Public Works to wipe out these laws and put the buildings...
...student council is unwilling to set up a ballot box in the Union and appoint some one to watch it, the freshmen will be glad to undertake the election on their own. At least the council should be able to discover more useful pursuits than that of playing nursemaid to the poor little unobtrusive freshmen. William F. Read...