Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (237-to-119) a bill to permit the President to appoint a nonresident to be Governor of Hawaii; sent it to the Senate...
...strongest civilian available in charge, the House last week passed (237-to-119) President Roosevelt's bill authorizing him to appoint, if necessary, a nonresident of the islands to be their Governor...
...questionnaire evoked earlier in the year. Such a restriction would really amount to little more than recognizing the distinction between the "pass" and "honors" degree which already exists at Harvard in fact. Another and possibly more effective method of achieving the same end would be for the University to appoint one or more men, chosen either from Harvard or another university, to the position of full professor, with the understanding that the person or persons appointed would devote all or the major part of his time to tutorial work. Since most promotions at the present time are notoriously made...
...also with the knowledge that he had been elected Governor of Nebraska a third time. After his lungs cleared, heart trouble kept "Brother Charley" on his back until last week. In March died Robert Beecher Howell, Nebraska's Republican Senator, but Governor Bryan was too ill to appoint a Democratic successor; the State had to get along month after month with George William Norris as its lone Senator. Ambitious to sit in the Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would...
...articles of impeachment against Judge Louderback (TIME. March 6). Their gist was that he had abused his judicial power in receivership cases, had been guilty of "tyranny and oppression, favoritism and conspiracy which brought the administration of justice into disrepute.'' Original complainant against Judge Louderback, who was appointed in 1928 by President Coolidge on the say-so of then Senator Samuel Shortridge, was the San Francisco Bar Association. He was accused of appointing Lawyer Samuel Shortridge Jr. to at least one fat receivership, dismissing a receiver who refused to appoint as his attorney a lawyer of the judge...