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...Cabinet decided last week to appoint British ambassadors extraordinary who will journey to the capital of every major country in the worM and announce in each the accession of Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Object of My Life! | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Oxford and Cambridge now appoint "University Professors" who lecture informally on certain subjects, but Harvard's "University Professors" would have even greater freedom in their choice of subject and place of instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/12/1936 | See Source »

...doubt mean Commander-in-Chief, U. S. I do so because I think your dirty digs at Vice Admiral Hepburn are entirely uncalled for, misleading and spiteful. . . . Any fool can readily see the innuendo in the first paragraph of the article. Vice Admiral Hepburn does not owe his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet in any degree to the fact that the President and the Secretary of the Navy are old acquaintances of his, as it appears to me you have clearly insinuated. Their knowledge of his absolute fitness for the job no doubt may have influenced them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Munitions Among Gentlemen | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...Student Council will appoint a committee next week to consider what part the undergraduates should play in the Tercentenary celebration. At least one member will be chosen from each of the four classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 757 INSTITUTIONS INVITED TP SHARE IN TERCHENTENARY | 1/10/1936 | See Source »

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