Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (salary: $30,000 per year), President Hoover courteously wrote him: "I shall find it difficult to replace you." But the replacement of Mr. Young was not so difficult as the President had anticipated, for last week he made up his mind to appoint Eugene Meyer Jr., potent onetime New York financier and longtime Treasury officeholder...
...average hearing does not take more than 15 minutes. Judge Bartlett has a quick comprehension of marital troubles, needs few details. Children and property cause no hitch, providing the husband and wife have agreed on these matters in advance. If a defendant refuses to accept service or to appoint a Reno attorney to represent him, the plaintiff must wait an additional 40 days (not necessarily in Nevada) when a decree can be granted by default. If a defendant comes to Reno, vigorously contests a case, divorces can be obtained in Nevada with no more ease than elsewhere...
...investigate the whole question of bankruptcy law and practice, to propose to Congress some essential reforms. 3) To study the practicability of a road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions . . . we may suggest they are not a new necessity in government. President Roosevelt created 107 of them, President Taft 63, President Wilson 160, President Harding 44, President Coolidge 118. . . . I shall appoint others." Hoover commissions to date...
...President Hoover last week was having trouble finding suitable men to appoint to the reorganized Federal Power Commission and Tariff Commission. His supply of "new patriots" who would change lucrative private jobs for $12,000 public offices was running short. He had named Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin (retired) as chair-man of the Power Commission, only to have that onetime Chief of Army Engineers decline the appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must...
...strongest terms one friendly nation can use to another, the British note voiced fear that, if the European Union is established, "the wider interests both of Europe and of the world may be seriously endangered." Instead of forming a European Union, concluded His Majesty's Government, why not merely appoint a "European Committee" of the present League of Nations...