Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tart letter inquiring how on earth he justified a third term for Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. "Can it be," asked this Catholic onetime State Supreme Court Justice, ". . . because he is a Jew? . . . If, in order to give Roosevelt a chance to carry New York ... he and you must appoint a Jew as candidate . . . can you not select for us a candidate who . . . will exalt the Jewish reputation and know what it is all about? . . . This matter of Lehman seems to be only a pawn in the game of politics to you two who are trying to hold on to your...
There was still no Senate. Oldtime politicians, accustomed to gypping the Egyptian masses, proposed to use the Gov ernment's "temporary sovereign rights" to open the late King's envelope and let the Government of Premier Aly Maher Pasha appoint two-fifths of a new Senate. Had there been a strong new King at hand, Premier Maher Pasha might have done...
...temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry, 78-year-old Mrs. Aroline Chase Pinkham Gove, Lydia Pinkham's only living daughter, countered by asking the Supreme Court of Maine, where the company is incorporated, to appoint a receiver for the company, planning to outbid her nephews when the business was put on the block. Last month the first round went to the Pinkham grandsons when a Massachusetts judge decided that their suit for a permanent injunction should be heard first...
Still hanging fire last week was the proposal, accepted in principle by both Japan and Russia, to appoint a commission to fix the contiguous boundaries of those two countries and thereby end all excuse for frontier skirmishing...
...recent attack on Mr. Baldwin's "thinking machine" by Elder Conservative Statesman & Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 24) was last week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...