Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...
Last week John L. Duvall felt that something was going to happen to him, so he put his resignation in the mail. Mrs. Duvall then served as mayor?for 15 minutes?long enough to appoint a new City Comptroller and then resign herself. Her appointee was one Ira M. Holmes, lawyer...
...published in your issue No. 14 [TIME, Oct. 3], that Consul General Curtis be requested to resign in the absence of an explanation, satisfactory to Mr. La Dow, of why he permitted himself to be photographed in the vicinity of that dread beverage-beer, it would be splendid to appoint Mr. La Dow a censor of the habits and morals of Americans traveling abroad. In performing the pious functions of that position, meticulously as his intense but individual patriotism would dictate, he could incidentally be charged with the authority to summarily dismiss those representatives of our Government abroad whose conceptions...
...RESOLVED that the Presbytery appoint a committee of counsel to consist of two ministers and one ruling elder who is also a lawyer (said committee to be chosen so as to be easily accessible) and that Presbytery urge all its ministers when they are asked to remarry any divorced person concerning whose right to remarriage there appears to be the slightest question to bring all the papers and all relative information to this committee and to be guided by their judgment in acceding or refusing to perform the desired marriage...
...President's most important memorandums is: "Appoint a Governor-General of the Philippines, an Ambassador to Mexico, an Ambassador to Cuba." Last week his mind had to jot a postscript: "Item, a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board." Governor Daniel Richard Crissinger had tendered his resignation (See POLITICAL NOTES...