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Washington is governed by three commissioners, appointed by the President and answerable only to him. By law one is an Army engineer, charged with municipal construction, street paving, water, sewer plants and the like. By tradition and law the other two are civilian residents of the District. What set the city's voteless populace to lamenting the prospect of military dictatorship was President Hoover's announcement last week that he would appoint Major General Herbert Ball Crosby, now chief of cavalry at the War Department, to one of the non-military District Commissionships. General Crosby's appointment...
Captain Jones, who was in Cambridge conferring with H. W. Clark '23, assistant director of Athletics, on the Harvard system of allotting tickets, explained, "At West Point we have entrance requirements very different from those of the colleges. Each Congressman can appoint only two men. So a candidate for West Point often finds himself unable to enter as early as he wishes, if all the appointments have been made from his district, and he frequently spends one or two years in college before entering the Army. Also many men feel it best to get college training before entering on their...
...Senate of the U. S. on Dec. 16, 1929 passed a bill authorizing the Federal Radio Commission "to appoint a Chief Engineer, who shall receive a salary of $10,000 per annum, and not to exceed two assistants to such Chief Engineer at salaries not to exceed $7,500 per annum. . . .' The engineering work of the Federal Radio Commission has been performed heretofore by Capt. Hill, U. S. A., and, before him, by Commander Craven...
Easiest way to pacify the students, popularize the Cabinet, seemed to be to appoint the champagne-cocktail Duke as Minister of Education. To oblige his pal and King, blithe Alba took the stodgy post, settled the students' strike in a day, helped immeasurably with his national popularity and prestige to bolster the otherwise undistinguished new Cabinet...
...peculiar strength of Dr. Schacht lies in the fact that the President of the Reichsbank is chosen for the inordinately long term of ten years, and is answerable during that time neither to the Reichstag, the Prime Minister nor the President of the Republic. Stiff-necked Dr. Schacht was appointed in 1923. Thus his term will not be up until 1933. Paradoxically the Allied Powers, whom he was challenging last week, themselves insisted on this arrangement in 1924, when the Dawes Plan was adopted. They feared that if German politicians could depose the head of the Reichsbank they might...