Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe the solution to this situation is to dispense with the election of a captain at the close of the season and to wait until late in the following season for an election; to have the coach appoint various individuals to set in that capacity during the early games and then, a week or perhaps two weeks prior to the Yale game, when the final make-up of the starting team is decided--strictly upon football merit and expediency--to have the players elect the man they then wish to honor and to have represent them
Introduced to a crowd of 35,000 by Senator Charles L. McNary, his running mate-who had been drafted by Pittsburgh GOPoliticos for the occasion, in order to keep the honor from little Governor Arthur H. James-Willkie promised to appoint a man as Secretary of Labor ("it's a man's job"), to revise NLRB through special legislation, to extend Social Security, to enforce the wage-hour law, to clean out Communists in the Government. He asked labor to clean house of its racketeers. The speech went well with the audience, was said, unofficially, to have pleased...
Pointing to the steady increase in the tax rate and the city debt, the Committee suggests that unless radical reforms are adopted, it may eventually become necessary for the state legislature to appoint a Finance Commission to take over the government...
...Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave the job of running the first peacetime U. S. draft largely to Lewis Hershey. By law, either a civilian or a military man may have the $10,000-a-year post of Draft Administrator. The Army hopes that President Roosevelt will appoint Lieut. Colonel Hershey, will not be surprised if a big-name civilian gets the honor and the salary...
Realizing that the help of doers as well as thinkers will be needed, the conference will soon appoint such an advisory committee, will have businessmen, lawyers, engineers, etc. take part in the plenary sessions...