Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers were primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready to force this issue of his own making to the fighting point. Abruptly he announced a two-week stay of his order, asked the new National Industrial Recovery Board to appoint a three-man committee to investigate and recommend changes...
...bill to remove ballot boxes from the jurisdiction of local sheriffs and to empower the Governor to appoint two of the three members of all local election boards. In addition the Governor is authorized to hire an unlimited number of election guards at $5 a day at the community's expense...
...break Mayor Walmsley's control of the New Orleans police, Boss Long had the State Legislature pass a law turning control of the police over to an independent board. To seize the tax reins of the city, Boss Long had Governor Allen appoint Long henchmen to the local Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial...
Races. But aside from the happy excitement of playing host to such a notable stranger for a few days Hawaiians had another, deeper reason for being interested in the President's coming. Last year he had tried to take away the territory's cherished right to home-rule, to appoint a mainlander as its Governor. His ostensible reason was that it was hard to find, as the law required, a good man resident on the islands. But all the world knew that the President was thinking of the Massie rape & murder case of 1931-32, of the racial seethings that...
Balked by Congress in his effort to name a mainland Democrat to a $10,000-a-year job, the President was in no hurry to appoint a new Governor. Not until he had been in office nearly a year did he finally pick a successor to Lawrence McCully Judd, descendant of a Yankee medical missionary who went to the Sandwich Islands a century ago. Then he appointed the next best thing to the kind of man he originally wanted?a Democrat who had lived on the islands only 17 years...