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...task was to fill the vacancy by the appointment of a man whose training and experience gave the greatest promise for the protection of the health of the people of Virginia. The field of preventative medicine is a highly specialized one. There are tens of thousands of physicians trained to cure disease for every one trained to prevent its spread. Proven experts in this latter field are necessarily confined almost exclusively to officials in the health departments of National, State and municipal governments. The range of selection is therefore comparatively limited. Inasmuch as communicable disease is no respecter of State...
...They were a female assistant district attorney who gets $7,500; two female deputy assistants who get $4,000 and $3,240; the sister of a male magistrate; a female attorney; a female member of the State insurance department. Tammany indicated that it would appoint a female to "vindicate" the city's women...
...When the Honors List was published at London, Australians were disappointed. Native Sir Isaac Isaacs got nothing-possibly because of the unconcealed anger of George V, who objected vigorously when the Australian Government refused to accept the Duke of York as Governor General, forced His Majesty to appoint Sir Isaac, a man whom he did not "even know by sight" (TIME...
...Rome does, so does Warsaw. Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski is remarkably like Dictator Benito Mussolini, except that he is lazier, more temperamental. II Duce bothers to be Premier of Italy. Marshal Pilsudski will not bother often to be Premier of Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...
Even granting the innocence of the principal figure, the ability of a president to appoint from among is friends to positions of great public trust men capable of such betrayal is hardly a talent for which the nation can be proud...