Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ambassador Castillo Nájero left Secretary Hull's office, he had an agreement on oil. Technically, it did not end the oil dispute. It was merely an agreement to agree in the future. By its terms each country will appoint one expert to determine how much the U.S. oil interests will be paid for the expropriated property. The experts will report before April 20, 1942, and there can be no appeal from their decision. If they do not agree, diplomatic negotiations begin, pledged to a settlement within five months, or the whole deal is off. The settlement...
Franco got round last week to giving Spain a primate, elevated the Bishop of Salamanca (whose palace he used as a headquarters during the Civil War) to the long-vacant Archbishopric of Toledo. Unlike the usual announcement of a major Catholic appointment, the news came not from Rome but Madrid. Four days later the Vatican confirmed it, explained Franco had picked one of the three candidates whose names it submitted. What the sequence of bulletins also indicated was how completely Franco had won his fight for the right to appoint Spanish prelates...
...Ministers of War and the Navy could go over the Prime Minister's head, directly to the Emperor. The Services could prevent the forming of any Cabinet simply by refusing to appoint military ministers...
When the competition ends with the publication of the Register on December 1 or thereabouts, Hooper will appoint a photo chairman and a number of photo editors, and McNulty will name his two most successful candidates advertising manager and circulation manager...
...first emphasis has been upon the danger of bombing. It is true that there has been no bombing in Europe ever any distance even remotely comparable to the span of the Atlantic ocean. But it has been easy to picture bombers as flying over our cities--and exciting to appoint fire-wardens, organize defense corps, and in general put or communities, large and small, in a state of readiness for blitzkreig. Now comes an announcement from Lloyd's London, the final authority on the element of chance in this world, that they are ready to give insurance against damage...