Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generally regarded as the heir apparent on Ohio State's campus was keen young J. Lewis Morrill, once a newspaperman and now university vice president. Last week the university's board of trustees met to appoint Dr. Rightmire's successor. Then newsmen hurried to the house of 74-year-old Professor-Emeritus William McPherson, former dean of the Graduate School, to startle him with the news that he had been elected the university's acting president...
...become effective, the Wage-Hour Administrator, a $10,000 official in the Department of Labor, would begin to examine wages & hours in all industries in interstate commerce to see where and when minimum wages should be flexed up and minimum hours down, toward the 40-40 ratio. He would appoint up to 750 boards, representing Industry. Labor and the Consuming Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded by the boards, employes could sue their employers...
This year Ohio's Governor Martin Davey did not appoint a committee, pleaded inadequate funds; Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Samoa and the Virgin Islands sent no pictures; the Kansas exhibit consisted of 14 tidy prints that might have been designed in a fastidious recoil from the ostentatious earthiness of Midwesterners like Thomas Benton and Grant Wood. That State committees were an unpredictable factor was equally apparent in the State of Washington exhibit, predominantly abstract, and the Massachusetts collection, which was academic, mythological, and as out of tune with its neighbors as a choir at a Benny Goodman swing concert...
...Schwab. Mr. Schwab was president of the society in 1927 when its council decided to enlarge its index of engineering articles. Between 1927 and 1934, A. S. M. E. lost $215,000 on the index. Last week, in New York Supreme Court, Justice William H. Black said he would appoint a referee to decide whether certain members of the council were liable for this loss, ordered a referendum of the society to see if it thought the index was a good idea, seized the opportunity to abuse Mr. Schwab and these associates: "Inconceivable ignorance . . . flagrant instance of inattention . . . heedlessness...
...length of iron pipe in a newspaper and with it slugged Ben Kohn. Slugged also were various other Browningites. Last week, Governor Browning posted $250 reward for Ben Kohn's slugger's apprehension. At the same time he invoked a forgotten law of 1919 empowering him to appoint up to 600 State police...