Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take place by mail at the end of this week. Under the revised constitution, the number of members of the Council has been increased from 15 to 17; in accordance with this enlargement, this week's elections are to obtain six Juniors and three Sophomores, who will then appoint five additional Juniors and three additional Sophomores...
...Each state or province of a Dominion has its own premier and its own governor, there being also a premier and a governor-general for the Dominion as a whole. Governors, no less than governors-general, derive their powers directly from the King who appoints them, theoretically, on the advice of the local premier. In practice the King used to appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen...
...professional discretion in the matter of contraceptives Mrs. Sanger has made herself champion, were flabbergasted when Dr. Jacob Daniel Brook, 56, county health officer of Grandville, Mich., rose up in the House of Delegates and proposed a resolution on Birth Control. Let the A. M. A., urged Dr. Brook, appoint a committee to spend one year pondering the effects of contraception on health, wealth, morals, happiness. Dozens of physicians leaped from their seats to shout pro & con on the long suppressed topic. Retiring President Edward Starr Judd cleverly put discussion over to the next...
...choice of Richard Scudder Neff '33, of Chicago, Illinois, to head the Junior ushers for Class Day, was announced last night by E. A. Mays '32, chairman of the Class Day Committee. Neff will appoint eight assistants and 85 other ushers to complete the quota of juniors who will direct the Class Day program...
Niggardly was the promotion bestowed by George V last week on Australia's Sir Isaac Isaacs "first native-born Governor General of a Dominion." Only the most strenuous Australian insistence moved His Majesty in the first place to appoint as representative of the Crown in Australia "a man whom the King has never seen" (TIME. Dec. 15, 1930). Last week Sir Isaac Isaacs, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, was promoted not into the peerage but merely to Knight Grand Cross in the order of which he was already a Knight Commander...