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Selection of the committee for the Dunster House dance to be held on April 24 has been completed, and will consist of six men, who may each appoint several assistants. There will also be a committee of patronesses, which has not been definitely decided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMITTEE OF SIX ARRANGE APRIL DANCE FOR DUNSTER | 4/1/1931 | See Source »

...with an arms embargo. He moved to conserve oil on the public domain. He banished the hypocritical "Official Spokesman" from the White House. He summoned a special session of Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff revision. He exhorted the People to war against Crime. He began to appoint expert commissions to solve tough old problems. Everybody was heartily with him, as they are with most Presidents, during this "honeymoon" period of his Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Halfway | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Congress passed and President Machado signed last week a bill strengthening his regime by creating Havana a federal district like Washington, D. C., vesting in him the right to appoint all district officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Ousting The Dollar | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...urged His Majesty to appoint a Liberal cabinet " said Senor Francisco Cambo, the great Catalonian leader. "But, 'Personally,' I said, 'I could not take the Prime Ministry until next July. My health is bad now and my throat is weak. I must take care of myself,' I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: So I Said to the King. . . . | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...only "real reason" Canadians could think of for this choice is that the Earl is a good friend of Mr. Bennett. Other reasons: 1) the Ponsonbys are a family long in the service of Britain's'Royal family, and George V, after having had to appoint a "native" whom he had never seen Governor General of Australia (TIME, Dec. 15), has been most eager to send a British blue-blood to Canada. Lady Bessborough is French, the daughter of the late Baron Jean de Neutlize, and so arc many Canadians more or less French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Gamblers Vexed | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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