Word: appointer
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Within two hours after his arrival, he persuaded both sides to appoint three members to an arbitration board which he headed with the right to vote. Each faction agreed to abide by the board's findings. The board retired to the Hotel Sheraton. Four hours later it emerged with its decision?$2.10. The strike was over...
Last week President Hoover completed reorganization of Reconstruction Finance Corp. under the terms of the new Relief Act. Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve was dropped from the R. F. C. chairmanship. To succeed him the President was determined to appoint a Democrat, thus making a majority of the R. F. C. board members of that party.* By turning R. F. C. control, at least nominally, over to his political opponents, the President hoped to silence campaign talk that the corporation was being used for partisan purposes...
...resolution by Nebraska's Howell to provide transportation home for the B. E. F., the money to be deducted from the membership's adjusted service certificates when they come due in 1945. It was sent to the House. Oklahoma's Senator Thomas offered a resolution to appoint a joint Congressional committee to look after the B. E. F.'s welfare. New York's Copeland, "speaking as a medical man," urged the appropriation of $100,000 to get the B. E. F. out of Washington before it started a plague...
...Widely discussed in railroad circles last week was the possibility that the western roads might appoint a commission to regulate them, arbitrate among them, at the head of the commission to be an all-powerful "tsar." Such a ruler could eliminate duplications of service, reform methods of freight solicitation. The man selected would have to be a national figure, not an officer of any road. Walker Downer Hines, who managed the railroads for one year under Government ownership, was mentioned as a possibility. At present Mr. Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves...
...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Br�ning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...