Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clear. In Rye, England, the town fathers failed to appoint a successor to the late Chummy Barton, last official Watcher for Napoleon's cross-Channel invasion of England...
...less appreciative of the President's administrative talents: "When he needs a suit of clothes [he] will find three tailors, will tell each of them to make one leg of the trousers, will let each of them guess which leg he is working on, and will then appoint a fourth tailor to coordinate the trousers...
Nicety. In London, a writer for the Spectator remarked that "I had nothing to do with naming ... in the County of Morayshire a parish named Bellie. . . . But I cannot but express satisfaction that the Church of Scotland should have manifested such a sense of the proprieties as to appoint to it a little time ago a minister named the Rev. Mr. Venters...
...Deal? Some Republicans feared that the President might appoint a couple of New Dealish GOPsters to the proposed War Ballot Commission. Others feared that the Administration had a natural advantage with soldier voters. Ohio's Robert Taft, proffering an amendment to forestall overseas Government political campaigning, complained: "OWI is engaged in propagandizing the entire world in behalf of the President . . . [and will] continue unless we prohibit that kind of propaganda...
Lastly it was decided that President Conant should appoint a committee to investigate and evaluate war service training programs. He will also collaborate with the Committee on Admissions to determine the standing of students admitted or readmitted to Harvard from such programs in the light of their total course of studies...