Word: appointive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Precedent. As yet there is no clearly defined precedent covering incidents such as those of the I'm Alone and Josephine K. Should the Canadian Government protest Captain Cluett's killing, the next step would be to appoint a commissioner from each country to arbitrate. Justice Van (See col. 3) Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court and Justice Duff of the Canadian Supreme Court have yet to settle the I'm Alone case...
Perhaps the most influential change of policy outlined by Dean Hanford is the decision to appoint a permanent Dean of Freshmen. The reasons for the change and the avowal to retain one or, it is to be hoped, two, Assistant Deans are fully explained. But of all the duties incumbent on the new officer none are more important than the supervision of Freshman instructors and advisers...
Important as the success of the loan was for the whole Australian Commonwealth, New South Welshmen were more excited over the unsuccessful attempt of N. S. W. Premier J. T. Lang last week to appoint 60 of his Laborite friends to the State Legislative Council (Upper House...
...Laborite, Premier Lang has found every Socialist bill he has tried to pass blocked by the Legislative Council. In New South Wales, an exception to other Australian States, the members of the Upper House are not elected by the voters but appointed by the Governor at the suggestion of the Premier. Premier Lang announced that, just as the late great Herber Asquith pushed his Parliament Bill (curtailing the veto power of the Lords over money bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough...
...contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain for His Majesty's Government in Australia. Up to last week Australia House had been as unimportant in English eyes as the equally imposing India House -mere symbols both. Up to last week the appointment of a Governor General for one of the Dominions had always been announced by His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, had always contained the hallowed words: "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve. . . ." Like a blunderbuss fired from Australia House came last week this blunt phrase...