Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an arms embargo. He moved to conserve oil on the public domain. He banished the hypocritical "Official Spokesman" from the White House. He summoned a special session of Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff revision. He exhorted the People to war against Crime. He began to appoint expert commissions to solve tough old problems. Everybody was heartily with him, as they are with most Presidents, during this "honeymoon" period of his Administration...
...urged His Majesty to appoint a Liberal cabinet " said Senor Francisco Cambo, the great Catalonian leader. "But, 'Personally,' I said, 'I could not take the Prime Ministry until next July. My health is bad now and my throat is weak. I must take care of myself,' I said...
Perhaps because he detests gambling, Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...only "real reason" Canadians could think of for this choice is that the Earl is a good friend of Mr. Bennett. Other reasons: 1) the Ponsonbys are a family long in the service of Britain's'Royal family, and George V, after having had to appoint a "native" whom he had never seen Governor General of Australia (TIME, Dec. 15), has been most eager to send a British blue-blood to Canada. Lady Bessborough is French, the daughter of the late Baron Jean de Neutlize, and so arc many Canadians more or less French...
...province of the Student Council must be that of an organized body. The plans announced today affirming the intention of the Student Council to appoint nominating committees to work in conjunction with the present class officers are needless. To say that they are a departure from tradition without the consent of the classes is to say almost nothing, in view of the general disinterest in the matter. Nevertheless, here again it would be better to do things with some measure of regularity...