Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that the next President is privileged to appoint new diplomats even if the old diplomats do not resign...
Bench. In 1921, a message pencilled on rough copy paper and signed "Gus," reached the Hon. William Howard Taft in Canada. It was from the late Gustave J. Karger, oldtime correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "Gus" reported that President Harding had just decided "to appoint Big Bill Chief Justice." Back to Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties...
...Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...
...Warrior. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. is an up-and-coming young lawyer in Manhattan. The local Institute for Public Service last week popped out with the report that Lawyer "Al Jr." had received 38 "professional opportunities," i.e., assigned law cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young lawyers was not mentioned for comparison...
...comfort of knowing that it would soon be over now. Even if Mr. Hoover should be elected and appoint Calvin Coolidge to the Supreme Court or something, or if it were decided to continue living in Washington anyway, the strain of being First Lady would definitely cease before next spring...