Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always wishes that a change of Administration might come when everything is quiet internally and externally. But world events do not wait on American presidential elections. The Democrats come into office at a time of world crisis and the new men whom they appoint must deal instantly with questions of vital interest to our country. Let us hope that they may be wise men, so conscious of their own lack of intimate knowledge of these questions that they will act conservatively, for the moment at least, strictly along the lines of traditional American foreign policy which is neither Democratic...
...World War we took our Constitution, wrapped it up and laid it on the shelf until it was over. ... If we're going to get anywhere in this business of getting out of the Depression-of using public funds to stimulate business, we've got to appoint a Director General of Public Works to wipe out these laws and put the buildings...
...student council is unwilling to set up a ballot box in the Union and appoint some one to watch it, the freshmen will be glad to undertake the election on their own. At least the council should be able to discover more useful pursuits than that of playing nursemaid to the poor little unobtrusive freshmen. William F. Read...
...Cabinet." Next day, ousted von Papen received a photograph of Der Reichspräsident inscribed in Old Paul's firm hand, Ich hatte einen Kameraden ("I had a Comrade"). By last week Comrade von Papen had convinced Comrade von Hindenburg that the best interests of the Fatherland demanded appointment of the leader of the largest party to be Chancellor. Proposing himself as Vice-Chancellor and Reich Commissioner for Prussia, Comrade von Papen argued that with this "safeguard" (himself) in the Cabinet it would be safe to appoint Hitler Chancellor. Devious but cogent, this proposition won 85-year-old Comrade...
...next breath the editorial proposed as an alternative that the association appoint one of the existing journals as its official organ, supply it free to members...