Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virginia. For several weeks, the President has been meditating on the choice of a successor. For many years, the holder of the post has been a man expert in the technical side of farming. The President announced his belief that, at the present time, it was more important to appoint a man familiar with the business side of farming. He offered the post to Secretary Hoover who declined it, promising to assist, however, in the selection of a proper person. It was reported that the President has on his desk a report on 150 to 180 men who have been...
Following Mr. Wister's recommendation, the Board of Overseers voted that the President of the Board appoint at his convenience a committee to consider if and in what manner the foregoing recommendation of the Committee on English can be carried...
...Appoint Emerson's "professor of books"; lot him be one of those scholars for whose inspiring leadership men have crossed the seas; let him lecture, talk, and guide the aspiring--and much of the problem that perplexes educators will solve itself pleasantly...
...President, therefore, deems it proper to appoint a Federal Oil Conservation Board consisting of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior and Commerce to consider all phases of the problem with representatives of the industry and with the assistance of the commission appointed last March to investigate the limited problem of the future oil supply of the Navy...
Having made sure of its ground, the Moscow Government reiterated its request for the return of the Russian fleet* which took refuge at Tunis after the route of General Wrangel's army in November, 1920. It even went so far as to appoint a commission to visit the fleet. The French Government found itself in a dilemma. Having recognized the Bolsheviki, could it refuse to surrender the fleet? Apparently not. But if it did surrender the fleet, Rumania and other Black Sea neighbors of Russia would be visibly annoyed, and Rumania is a close ally of France. What...