Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Safety would be lumped the police and fire departments, the city inspection services. The education department would not only oversee the school system, but all museums, The Bronx Zoo, Grant's Tomb. Under the Smith Plan, the Governor, with the approval of the State Senate, would appoint superior court judges for life, with 70 as the retirement age. The Mayor would appoint magistrates to the lower courts under the same terms...
...Dublin rebellious Domhnall Ua Buachalla, whom George V was obliged to appoint Governor General of the Irish Free State (TIME, Dec. 5), flouted the authority of the Crown last week, styled himself not Governor General but "Seneschal" and proceeded to sign all documents in Gaelic...
...Melbourne Australia, zealous members of the Bill Posters' Union decided to petition the Crown to appoint Edward of Wales as the next Governor General of Australia. Reason : H. R. H. is a trade unionist in good standing, a life member of the Bill Posters' Union...
...recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler was nevertheless unable last week to persuade President von Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor of the Reich...
...answers." With each exchange it became clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies of the hated von Papen "Cabinet of Monocles...