Search Details

Word: appointment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...schoolboys of the exact nature of their function, the newly elected legislators of Ethiopia were unlikely to criticize the Emperor's activities very strongly for some time to come. The constitution makes the Cabinet responsible not to them but to the Emperor, gives him the power to appoint every member of the Senate. But thanks to Haile Selassie, they were there in the Parliament, empowered and even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make a complaint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Day of Fulfillment | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and the four majority members of the School Committee received an unmistakable rap on the knuckles from the voters for having attempted to appoint 17 teachers and coaches, without apparent qualifications, over objections from School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: Voters Approve of PR, Void 17 Appointments | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

Syria formally proposed that the Assembly appoint a seven-nation, fact-finding commission to investigate the situation on both sides of the border...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Turkish-Syrian Border Question Divides U.N. General Assembly; Ike Will Attend NATO Meeting | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

...White House said President Eisenhower accepted the resignation and will appoint Dep. Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers Jr. to the Cabinet post. Rogers is a close friend of Vice President Nixon...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Atty. General Brownell Resigns, Rogers Selected as Replacement; Syria Refuses Saud's Mediation | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...Romance Language Department will appoint a new professor of Italian literature before next year, retiring chairman Raimundo Lida said last night. The decision will probably be made some months after Wilbur M. Frohock, Professor of Romance languages and Literatures takes over the department chairmanship next month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dante Expert's Death Deprives Italian Dept. Of Course Instructor | 10/17/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next