Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgathering curiosity was further piqued by the arrival at Palo Alto, just after Col. Donovan got there, of that other equally famed Assistant Attorney-General, Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, "personification of Prohibition." In view of the Hoover promise to appoint a commission to investigate the "grave abuses" now suffered by the "experiment noble in motive," newsgathering speculation ran to unanswered questions like this: Was the President-Elect asking Mrs. Willebrandt to tell Col. Donovan all she knew about Prohibition so that the redoubtable Colonel could make plans for stricter enforcement? Or was this conference preliminary to a great "Hoover...
...definitely decided whether the Council should appoint a Committee is a later date to embody its reactions to the House plan in a report...
Decentralization is a prime tenet of the Hoover theory of administration-dividing the work into parts and making one person responsible for each part. He would rather appoint a director of this and a director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump to a commission. Radio is an example. Last week radiowners throughout the U. S. made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas...
Formerly the appointments of Red Book officials have been made by the class president, who is elected soon after mid-years. Now the council will appoint these officials in the middle of December, enabling competitions for minor positions to start the middle of January. In addition, the work of the board will be lightened by the fact that all the individual photographs will baxe by that time been taken. The Red Book will be issued as usual on the day of the Jubilee, leaving a total of four and a half months in which to do less work than...
...belief that provision for a bi-partisan tariff commission promotes rather than eliminates politics. I would ask Congress to give me authority to appoint a tariff commission of five members from among the best qualified in the country to deal with the problem irrespective of party affiliations, with a salary sufficiently large to induce them to devote themselves exclusively to this important work...