Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court is to retain its function as the moulder of the Constitution in eventual accordance with the popular mandate, it is essential to appoint to it men of high quality and broad outlook. For example, the men who may one day sit in judgment on the Volstead Act ought to have in view impending disruption and obvious corruption as well as intricacies in wording of the law itself. And Judge Parker, from all that can be discovered, seems neither broadminded nor first-rate, and although certainly it is unfair for partisan purposes to criticize appointments to this tribunal certainly...
Parties. "One of the best ways to leave certain regions of the chapter house free for informal activity of an unsupervisable nature during house parties is to appoint a 'steering committee' of students. The members of this committee take turns in flattering and cajoling the house mother and in occupying her mind with high and noble thoughts for whatever length of time is deemed desirable. Not only is this of immediate value but if by chance the entertainment be gastronomic and sufficiently prolonged and varied, it may produce results so vital to the ancient lady that...
...sure we continue to re-hash the Monroe Doctrine. We appoint and send commissioners to investigate, to advise, to report. We maintain our traditional aloofness to foreign entanglements. Why not consider the state rights of citizens of the Western Hemisphere in line with our own political experience? In the meanwhile our sister republics read and reread TIME. The unofficial promise it contains, the friendly American grin it brings to mind vanishes dread bugaboos of imperialistic satraps and oil barons...
...from Port-au-Prince after a fortnight's investigation in the Black Republic. General was the prediction that the President, on the Commission's recommendation, would promptly withdraw Brigadier General John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner and unofficial autocrat over Haiti, and appoint in his place a regular diplomatic representative...
...Metropolitan Museum a specific group of 142 paintings and works of art to be known as the H. O. Havemeyer Collection. She directed that the Museum should also be given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works of art as my son Horace might appoint to it." No less generous than their mother, her son Horace and her daughters Adaline and Electra (now Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors...