Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second decree signed last week by Italy's short, bantamweight King, established the new supreme organ of state, the Fascist Grand Council (TIME, Oct. 1), by appointing 44 puissant Fascisti to sit as "the first two categories" of the Council. Il Duce was understood to be powerfully meditating on which Fascists he will tell His Majesty to appoint in the third category...
...Hoover conferred with Washington's "Dry" Senator Jones, New Jersey's "Wet" Senator Edge. He induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...
...outstanding Cabinet development of the week was that Mr. Hoover made no announcement ui ; ny Cabinet appointment; that, among thousands of words, of guesses and forecasts there was no authoritative statement. Predictions, however, verged on unanimity on two Cabinet matters. In the first place Andrew Mellon was conceded probable re-appointment to the position of Treasury Secretary. A two-hour conference between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hoover served as the basis for the story that the Treasury Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire...
According to C. C. Leatherbee '29, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Garfield and Whiteside, attorneys for the Club, have pursuaded Mayor Nichols of Boston to appoint a board of censors to reconsider the repression of the play, "Fiesta", in Boston. Their plea was granted on the grounds that the previous condemnation had been made by incapable persons...
Though hope in the recovery of George V remained throughout Great Britain last week, the King-Emperor himself made wise provision for the worst. Realizing that matters requiring his signature or decision were piling up, His Majesty expressed a desire to convoke the Privy Council and appoint a regency pro tempore. Cautiously the Royal physicians sought to divert the sick man from this purpose, fearing that the excitement and pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members...