Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution of the Administrative Board asking President Conant to appoint this committee follows...
...Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill he proposed to set up an Auditor General to audit expenditures after they were made, transfer to the Treasury Department's Budget Bureau the job of approving them beforehand...
...Dewey, that if the Governor would only run, his brother could order a new black robe and take his place at one end of the Supreme Bench. It is just because those reports were so frequently heard that it would be extremely embarrassing now for the President to appoint Mr. Lehman...
Scarcely knowing how to spend this windfall, the trustees decided to appoint a director, which Cooper Union had not had for 15 years. Last week Director Burdell, a sociologist as well as an engineer, said that the school would begin to turn out not merely engineers or artists but "wellrounded" men and women, "scientific humanists...
...since then, however, what with the Italians showing their muscle in the Mediterranean, the Germans down the Danube and the Japanese all over the Far East. It behooves the Empire to stand fast, and a great cementing gesture was made last week when George VI was graciously pleased to appoint H. R. H. the Duke of Kent to go out to Canberra in November 1939 and take over the job George V could not get for Gloucester...