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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Footnote | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: First in Burma | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Independence! | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Rebellion in Denver | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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