Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cabinet was not to be jostled. They agreed to appoint M. Zaimis provisional President, pending an election, but insisted for their own dignity that an official election be held. Three days later Parliament quietly elected M. Zaimis...
About the Senate flew reports that Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania would appoint arch-lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy to the empty seat. Warned Senator Nye of North Dakota: "I give notice here and now that the appointee of Governor Fisher will need be one far removed from the Mellon-Grundy-Fisher machine before I shall vote for him to be seated. We cannot damn one ill-smelling Pennsylvania machine without damning the other...
Almost the first act of the trustees was to appoint Charles Evans Hughes counsel. To him will come not only the routine problems of passing on the legality of the triumvirate's financing, but the problem of facing the suit brought against Fox last fortnight by the Government, charging violation of the Clayton anti-trust law by its ownership of Loew...
...their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month's London Naval Conference...
...details of the interior and select the equipment for the clinic, all of which will be up to the best U. S. standards. For two years the Italian government must not interfere with the clinic without Mr. Eastman's or Dr. Burkhart's approval. That Government appoint an unselfish, intelligent director who for two months must study U. S. dental methods and clinics under Dr. Burkhart's direction. It must furnish funds to operate the clinic "in a first class manner perpetually, or so long as it is necessary to have such an institution in Rome...