Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gregory's appointment was withdrawn when he reached Washington. Instead the President was expected to appoint former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, a Democrat. In political circles it is generally admitted that Mr. Pomerene would have been a strong contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination this year if he had not been defeated for reelection to the Senate...
...appoint himself, of course...
...President wrote to Julius H. Barnes and to Samuel Gompers urging that their respective organizations (the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Federation of Labor) appoint permanent committees to aid in placing disabled veterans in jobs. There are still about 70,000 disabled veterans receiving training from the Veterans' Bureau, of whom about 3,000 will be discharged as rehabilitated every month...
...member of the younger branch of the Catholic Howard family, which has during hundreds of years produced the Dukes of Norfolk. On and off Sir Esme has been in the Brtish Diplomatic Corps for 38 years and is therefore a professional diplomat. For that very reason his appointment caused some comment in official circles, for it has been the almost invariable practice of the British Government to appoint men conspicuous in some other field of life. Being a Catholic and popular in Spain, it was felt that his position there, as Ambassador to the Court of His Most Catholic Majesty...
...Reparation Commission having decided to appoint two commissions, of which one to examine German capital abroad and the other the financial situation and currency conditions of Germany, the German Government is of the opinion that through the proceedings in the latter commission important progress could be made toward the solution of the problems underlying economic recovery. My Government holds the views that this aim can only be achieved if the United States cooperates in said commission...