Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was held, after seizure, by Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer as "trustee." The stock was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act passed in 1917, which provided that the President should appoint an Alien Property Custodian to hold property in this country owned by citizens of enemy countries. Likewise the Custodian was empowered to sell any of this property at public auction, and the proceeds from sale of the metal stock reached some...
...glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July 26) ; he gave them no information on fund disposal. Others...
...rode into that office as a Radical-Socialist when the electorate returned the present "Left Parliament"* in 1924, M. Doumergue is neither "radical" nor "socialist" but a "liberal" endowed with common sense. He has exercised with great tact and ability the thankless role of a President compelled to appoint 9 Ministries of widely varying political complexions within 25 months...
...Resolved, that each member paper appoint an editor especially to take care of Federation news and that the chairmen of this Committee. F. V. Field, be notified of such appointments before the end of the present session of the E. I. N. A. or at least before the end of the present college year...
...addition, they will appoint a Budget Committee, consisting of from 20 to 25 men, who will do the actual work connected with the collecting at Memorial Hall and in the gymnasium...