Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important, the heart had largely gone out of the supporters of the Court Bill with the death of their leader. Practical considerations moved other Democrats to feel that the death of Senator Robinson might be a political good fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded, was full...
...President would not be permitted to appoint more than one additional Justice in any calendar year. Thus all four additional Justices could not be seated before 1940, and if some elder Justices retired before that time all four might never be appointed...
...such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory wage committees...
Also this new group will consider questions relating to managerial competitions, as well as initiating action on new insignia awards, and having supervision over all cheerleaders. Further it shall have power to appoint committees to provide for the entertainment of visiting teams and committees to act in any advisory capacity...
...appoint you Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...