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...suggestion, I think it would be most advisable to appoint a committee of representative men, those representing every sport and from both "halves of the world," to investigate the deplorable state of affairs that the H.A.A.'s figures are in--it might also be wise to investigate President Conant's figures and from whence they came. Eddy J. Rogers...
...after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans and appoint Japanese military advisers to China's Armies...
Harvard again reached into a prostrate Austria yesterday to appoint one of her leading economists, Gottfried Haberler, to the Faculty as associate professor of Economics for the next five years. Austria's other representative in this field is Joseph A. Schumpeter, formerly powerful in Vienna's government circles...
When public clamor on some vital issue becomes too loud for White House comfort, a favorite Presidential trick is to appoint a batch of Big Names to a special commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation...
...Windsor Castle to need sweeping. You cannot offer to sweep them. Finally you are asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...