Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spain has been urging the Bonn government to appoint a German ambassador to Spain to act as the official representative of these men, as well as some 10,000 other Germans in Spain. For two years, Spain has had a diplomatic representative at Bonn. Postwar Germany has not forgiven Franco for his sale, at knockdown prices, of Germany's prewar assets in Spain (Madrid's German hospital went for I peseta), and the expropriation of German commercial firms (Siemens, Zeiss. Bayer, etc.) that were once the backbone of Spain's electrical, chemical and optical industries...
...times he came close to being nonplused. One of three Alaskan delegates- a small, weatherbeaten man named Gerrit Snider-strode up to him, clutching a bundle wrapped in newspapers. "Would you appoint a native Alaskan, a real sourdough governor of Alaska?" the visitor demanded. Startled, Ike paused a moment, and then said yes. Snider immediately unwrapped the parcel and yanked out a two-skin sable choker...
Last week, with the opposition thus softened up, Rhee offered a compromise amendment. It included all his original demands (among them popular election for the presidency), but offered to yield the President's right to appoint a cabinet to the Premier and the Assembly. As President of the Republic, Rhee of course could still veto these appointments...
...spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...
Another step in the local campaign to improve traffic conditions was City Manager John B. Atkinson's request to the City Council to appoint a trained traffic engineer to spend at least one year working to improve conditions in Cambridge