Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolved that the student Council appoint a committee of council members and other undergraduates in the College to study the athletic situation at Harvard, paying particular attention to the development of intramural competition and methods of financing the program of the Athletic Association; that this committee submit a report to the Council which will be handed to President Conant and Athletic Association officials...
...course the question of academic freedom is bound to be involved when the governor is able to appoint the members of the ruling board of the university. It is with this in mind that Governor LaFollette has put himself on record as favoring appointing the regents one third by the state supreme court, one third by the alumni and one third by the governor, a bill for which is being prepared for introduction into the next session of the state legislature by one of the "political henchmen" of the Governor...
...Immediately 24 Nazis jumped to their feet, raised their right arms in the Nazi salute. Next witness was the Swiss State's alienist. Dr. J. B. Joerger. The common-sense people of Switzerland have no time for rival alienists who dispute interminably the sanity of a prisoner. They appoint one man like Dr. Joerger whose opinion is final. "Frankfurter suffers mental and physical disturbances, factors causing limitation of responsibility...
...Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
Stocks. Statistician Roger Babson, pious and efficient moderator of the Con-gregational-Christian Church, declared that church boards now might well put their money in stocks rather than bonds. And in view of frequent churchly criticisms of Business, the Federal Council should appoint a committee to tell the churches what companies are "run according to Jesus Christ." Moderator Babson diagnosed Protestantism's basic trouble as its declining birth rate, thus perplexing listeners who recalled that a year and a half ago he was for birth control as a cure for poverty...