Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City last week Catholics heard that the Pope might appoint Right Rev. Guillermo Tritschler, Bishop of San Luis Potosí, to succeed the late Indian-born Pascual Diaz as Primate and Archbishop of Mexico. Bishop Tritschler, born 58 years ago of German and Spanish ancestry, has shepherded the agrarian and silver-producing diocese of San Luis Potosí for five years. To patient Catholics in States where the Church is relentlessly persecuted, this appointment may well bring hope. San Luis Potosí is one of the few States where priests and nuns walk the streets in canonical garb unmolested...
...foreign affairs I do not propose to be a talkative President. But I do propose to appoint as Secretary of State a competent man grounded in sound American principles...
Your country, Russia, is the only country which is marching forward." Communist critics hail as Radek's "masterpiece" his editorial, A Lesson In History For The Archbishop of Canterbury in which he sneered: "Most Reverend Thomas Davidson ... if you tell too many lies, the Communist International will appoint two of its experts to write a history of the archbishopric of Canterbury which will make you feel sorry for yourself. . . . [When Henry VIII] had cast his eye on a simpering miss named Anne Boleyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury decided that all the Church dogmas and all the rulings...
...these circumstances to appoint Lord Linlithgow the next Viceroy of India, so that he might expertly install and adjust the new Constitution to its 350,000,000 souls, seemed quite the most obvious and also quite the wisest decision taken last year by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in what was otherwise his Year of Bumbles. But would the Indian people take either to the Constitution or to Linlithgow? When he arrived in Bombay there was not a single native newspaper which did not oppose the Constitution, and the earliest date by which Britons dared hope to put it into effect...
...most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...