Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution by Nebraska's Howell to provide transportation home for the B. E. F., the money to be deducted from the membership's adjusted service certificates when they come due in 1945. It was sent to the House. Oklahoma's Senator Thomas offered a resolution to appoint a joint Congressional committee to look after the B. E. F.'s welfare. New York's Copeland, "speaking as a medical man," urged the appropriation of $100,000 to get the B. E. F. out of Washington before it started a plague...
...Widely discussed in railroad circles last week was the possibility that the western roads might appoint a commission to regulate them, arbitrate among them, at the head of the commission to be an all-powerful "tsar." Such a ruler could eliminate duplications of service, reform methods of freight solicitation. The man selected would have to be a national figure, not an officer of any road. Walker Downer Hines, who managed the railroads for one year under Government ownership, was mentioned as a possibility. At present Mr. Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves...
...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...
Cultured, aristocratic, fragile and 83 years old, Prince Saionji conferred last week with half a hundred Japanese notables, his ancient brain cells turning over slowly what they said. He could advise 31-year-old Emperor Hirohito to appoint a political premier, which would further infuriate the fighting services and lower classes. He could advise the appointment of Japan's outstanding reactionary, Baron Hiranuma, who stood pledged virtually to sweep the Constitution aside and put down the dominance of politicians and the rich. Or was some third course possible...
...election if he is nominated. All that can safely be said is that on the basis of his past record he will bend both ways in an arduous effort to please both the reformers and Tammany, as he did when, after reluctantly firing Sheriff Farley, he proceeded to appoint a Tammany man as his successor. On that occasion the reformer set out to take Tammany for a ride, but they came back from the ride with the reformer inside, and the smile on the face of the Tiger...