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...Early in the summer I called upon Bishop Mclntyre. I suggested to him that the interracial situation and the juvenile situation in New York were so serious as to challenge religious forces to take the initiative in bettering conditions. I asked him . . . if he would be willing to appoint three or four [Roman Catholic] representatives to meet with three or four whom the Federation might appoint in order to explore the possibility of cooperative action...
Frank Merrill of North Woodstock, N.H., knew no Congressman who would appoint him to West Point. He finally got to West Point the hard way-by competitive examination after three years as an enlisted man in the Engineer Corps. He finished in 1929, aged 25, went into the Cavalry...
...Home Rule Bill, as edited by Democrat Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, committee chief, provides; > For an elective Governor −with power to appoint his own Cabinet. > For an Attorney General by local election instead of by Presidential appointment...
After that, Vivian's constitutional amendment was dead. The Senate killed it, then went home muttering about a week's wasted time. The House, 60-to-1, dismissed even a Vivian face-saving gesture to "appoint a committee to investigate the problem." Rebuffed, Governor Vivian in turn rebuffed reporters: "I don't care to say anything about it. What...
...Clear. In Rye, England, the town fathers failed to appoint a successor to the late Chummy Barton, last official Watcher for Napoleon's cross-Channel invasion of England...