Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When war with Spain was declared (April, 1898), Surgeon General Sternberg had already arranged to appoint women as army nurses serving under contract with the government. Selection of these nurses was put in my hands, and in August when about 1,000 women had entered the service, I was placed on duty directly under him as Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, the organization of which began at once. Before the end of '98, members of the Corps had done the nursing at the several hospitals of each of our big camps-Montauk, Chickamauga and Jacksonville, at 31 other...
...Like every other anachronistic institution in Britain," Scot MacDonald told a Labor audience at Worksop, "the House of Lords must be subject to the will, desire and mandate of the electors. We shall appoint new peers when they are necessary to do our work. The House of Lords has acted not as a national body but as a subordinate or subcommittee of Tory headquarters. The time has arrived when that has got to be stopped!" (Cheers...
Overseer Voliva announced that next July he will formally appoint Apostle Michael Mintern, 45, to be his successor, in charge of all church affairs. He will leave Zion, devote the rest of his days to spreading his religion throughout the world. To insure Zion from ever being broken up he has incorporated the business interests-candy factory, bakery, curtain factory, etc. etc.-at $5,000,000 with $2,000.000 worth of stock on the market, Zionites to have first chance to buy. Apostle Mintern will be vice president of this corporation...
Selection of the committee for the Dunster House dance to be held on April 24 has been completed, and will consist of six men, who may each appoint several assistants. There will also be a committee of patronesses, which has not been definitely decided...
...Congress passed and President Machado signed last week a bill strengthening his regime by creating Havana a federal district like Washington, D. C., vesting in him the right to appoint all district officials...