Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler had telephoned from Munich to the Nazi Governor of Hanover, an apparently blameless young man with a good war record, Herr Viktor Lutze. "I appoint you to succeed Roehm!" barked the Chancellor into the telephone. "You are the new Storm Troop Chief of Staff...
Since the Exchange Act did not make clear that the President had power to designate a commission chairman, Mr. Roosevelt did not appoint one. But it was generally assumed that the man he named to the five-year term was his choice for that No. 1 job. The newly-appointed commissioners met in Washington next day and formally elected him chairman. That man was Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Recommendations, This week the Federal Radio Commission is absorbed into the new Federal Communications Commission whose seven members (four Democrats, three Republicans) the President is about to appoint. Pleading for "editorial discretion" among the new appointees, Pundit Walter Lippmann. who works for Mr. Reid's Herald Tribune but does not always agree with him or it, earnestly recommended to the President : "The best commissioners would be men of the kind qualified to be head of a popular university or editor of an independent newspaper. Such men can be found. But they are not likely to be found among...
...salary be boosted from $7,500 as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to $10,000 as Undersecretary of Agriculture for doing practically the same work as in the past? 2) Should Senator Smith get the patronage he demanded from the White House? After President Roosevelt had failed to appoint one Reuben Gosnell as U. S. Marshal in western South Carolina, Senator Smith developed a violent feeling that Dr. Tugwell, not being a dirt farmer, was unfit to be the first man to fill the brand new office of Undersecretary of Agriculture. Both practical questions were answered in the affirmative...
...cannot afford to be set back. It is better at this time to observe the weight of sound judgment rather than the dictates of feeling. There is no more domineering, autocratic, dictorial and reprehensible group than those who represent the steel corporations of this country." Mr. Green proposed the appointment by President Roosevelt of an impartial board of three: 1) to investigate grievances and arrange for collective bargaining conferences with employers; 2) to hold workers' elections to determine what organization will represent what workers-the majority-organization to represent all. The strike, he said, should be indefinitely postponed...