Word: appointment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...follows: "The undersigned, members of the faculty of the Harvard Law School, though varying in their political opinions and their views as to the desirability of some of the policies of the present administration, are agreed that a provision, under the plan proposed, empowering the President to appoint justices to the Supreme Court of the United States in addition to the number now authorized by law, is undesirable...
Franklin Roosevelt, glancing over his morning newspapers one day last week, suddenly frowned in displeasure. He had come upon a report saying that he was planning to stump the country on behalf of his plan to appoint six new members to the Supreme Court. A few minutes later Secretary Steve Early was out handing a bulletin to the press. It denounced the report as "false" and "hostile": the President had no intention of making such a stumping tour...
...quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with the option of transferring not more than one-fourth the 1938 quota to 1937. Having thus triumphantly established quantity limitations as the basis for Japanese-American trade in cotton textiles, the U. S. mission, before sailing for home, agreed to appoint members to a joint standing committee before April 1 to set similar quotas in manufactured goods such as tablecloths, bedspreads, handkerchiefs...
...matter of fact, I think he refused to appoint Insurgents to committees because he was angry with them on account of their insurgency, which had already started. To assert that the Insurgents were moved by some selfish motive is an absolutely unfounded and unjustifiable charge...
...keep the Court up-to-date by continual infusions of new blood. Although Senator McKellar last week gradually emptied the Senate with two hours of bumbling oratory, he succeeded before doing so in getting over a pertinent point: President Taft appointed five Supreme Court justices, Harding in a little more than two years appointed four, Hoover appointed three. Only four Presidents have had no chance to appoint even one justice: William Henry Harrison (who was President for only a month), Zachary Taylor (President for only 16 months); Andrew Johnson (because a hostile Congress reduced the size of the Court...