Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Chautemps know that among those listed for the Directoire 'without being consulted' was his own War Minister, M. Edouard Daladier?" Whatever the Premier or the Chamber knew last week, the ''Battle of Mud" came to an abrupt end when a motion that the Chamber appoint a commission to investigate L'Affaire Starisky was defeated 360 to 229-the Socialists, who had been verbally lashing the Government, supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence...
...such overwhelming majorities that the State seemed on the verge of choosing him in 1034 by acclamation. But two months ago Senator Kendrick died. In an amazing burst of nonpartisanship Republicans joined with Democrats to amend the State Constitution so that Wyoming's Governor, Leslie Andrew Miller, could appoint to the Senate Senator Kendrick's onetime secretary, Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney...
...delegation announced that Paraguay had broken the truce by capturing four forts after the ceaseing signal. This Paraguay's delegation hotly denied. The Conference's plenary session was promptly called off and once again the League Commission took over. The Commission announced that it would appoint a sub-commission that would plunge into the Chaco and report whether or not the truce had been violated. Its Spanish chairman set out for Montevideo to preside there at a peace conference between Paraguayan and Bolivian plenipotentiaries especially dispatched last week from Asuncion...
...leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business of the week in seven and a half minutes flat, re-elected Speaker Goring, elected three Vice Presidents, empowered Speaker Goring to appoint all committees and adjourned sine die, subject to the Speaker's call...
...What is Parliament? A prostitute!" Parliament, under the Constitution released in draft form by the Pilsudski Colonels last week, will be not a prostitute but a political zero. The President of Poland, now a Pilsudski-picked puppet named Ignacy Mosciclti, will become in effect Dictator, with power to: 1) appoint the Chief Justice, the Premier and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army; 2) dissolve Parliament and veto its acts without recourse; 3) designate one of two candidates to be elected his successor as President...