Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
...officer who refused to honor the customary request for a resignation was Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Young Mitchell, attorney and anti-machine Democrat from Missouri. Secretary Roper issued a soapy explanation that an engineer rather than a lawyer was required for the .job. got the President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft abound" in the Commerce Department, that "serious derelictions" and "scandalous abuses" in the Steamboat Inspection Service led to such disasters as the burning...
Flush with profits, von Ribbentrop turned to dabbling in German politics at a period when any mention of Adolf Hitler would cause President von Hindenburg to snort: "I wouldn't appoint that Austrian poltroon so much as a postman!" Undismayed, Major von Ribbentrop kept dropping hints among Der Feldmarschall's military entourage that it might be the smart thing to make some sort of deal with Hitler. Finally in January 1933, at the home of Cologne Banker Franz von Schroeder, von Ribbentrop engineered the first meeting of Political Upstart Adolf Hitler and weak, perpetually scheming Lieut.-Colonel Franz...
...terms such demands were equivalent to an ultimatum from Tokyo demanding that President Roosevelt disband the Democratic Party on the Pacific-Coast, appoint a Japanese puppet Governor of California and withdraw all U. S. military forces to east of the Rocky Mountains...
...fundamental machinery" we mean the manner of faculty appointment and promotion, which is probably the very heart of the success of an educational institution. For many decades Yale has been almost unique in the country in giving the power to appoint and promote almost exclusively to the body of full professors in each school. The President has only a power of veto which has for obvious reasons been used put rarely. In practice this system has meant that the so-called "elder statesmen" in each department away the destinies of those among the lower ranks and of those who hope...