Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation leaked out from Washington last week in little whiffs of rumor, in planted "true stories" circulated by each interested faction. The whole truth would have to wait for historians. In general outline, the plan appeared to be like this: On or about April 1 the President is to appoint Corcoran as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of air. Perhaps sooner, Robert Lovett* will be made Assistant Secretary of War in charge of air. Robert Lovett, 45, a World War I Navy ace, publicly an unknown, is an able, coolheaded New York investment banker (a partner in Brown...
After four years of bitter litigation, Justice Sidney St. Felix Thaxter last week sustained the Pinkhams, chastized Lydia, saw no need to appoint a receiver. Said he: "On the whole, the President seems to me to have acted with restraint under great provocation. . . . We are reminded that there is no war like a civil war and no feud like a family feud...
During the early part of next week the chairmen will meet with Keith and Mercer to appoint another three members to their committees if they so desire...
...members of the Union Committee will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock with Eugene D. Keith '42, Council Representative for Freshman Affairs, and Douglas Mercer '40, assistant secretary of the Union, to appoint the chairmen of the two Committees and add eight or nine additional members. Three other Yardlings will be added later by each of the chairmen...
...executive officers will take over their duties from E. Langdon Burwell '41, and Lincoln Bloomfield '41, retiring president and vice-president at the first meeting of the cabinet, sometime early in March. During the next week the new officers will appoint eight undergraduate members to the cabinet...