Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Communications Commission, whose weightiest duty is to assign air channels and regulate their use by U. S. broadcasters. Last week President Roosevelt did to the Commission just twice as much as he had just done to the Supreme Court. He took advantage of two vacancies to appoint two new members who will bring it more into line with his own ideas...
While the Senate was busy wondering: 1) whom the President would appoint to the Supreme Court vacancy created last June 2 by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter; and 2) whether he would make his appointment before Congress adjourned, Idaho's gaunt old lion, Senator William E. Borah, last week gave it something new to wonder about. Said he on the Senate floor...
...When any party asks for an injunction on the grounds of a law's unconstitutionally, the senior judge of the circuit in which the plea is made shall appoint a court of three judges, at least one of whom is a circuit judge, to hear the case...
...Whenever the docket of any district court becomes overcrowded the senior judge of the circuit shall appoint a judge from another district to help clean up the accumulation of work. Or if there is no other district judge in the circuit who can be spared, the senior' circuit judge shall appeal to the Chief Justice of the U. S. who shall appoint a district judge from another circuit, preferably adjoining that where the need arises, to help out in the district concerned...
...three Regents whose names were extracted from the envelope one was dead and the Barlman did not share the liking of the late King Fuad for the other two, promptly voted to appoint three entirely different Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening...