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...Dear American friends, we humbly beg you to appoint some one who will abstain rigorously from sentimentalism and who quite simply from day to day will keep us informed as to what you really are thinking...
...interfere, having no authority to intervene in a wage controversy. The strike order, issued last week, was calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired no jot or tittle by a general walkout. The company said that hundreds of white men had applied for the Brotherhood...
...planned that next year only two undergraduates will sit on the Governing Board, the undergraduate vice-president and the chairman of the Debating Union. Grimm holds the latter office this year and, with the advice and consent of the Governing Board, will appoint his successor next fall...
...Charles Brand, a recent addition to the House from Ohio, wrote to Secretary of Commerce Hoover and said that, although he thought his own name was being considered, he felt like asking President Coolidge to appoint Mr. Hoover as Secretary of Agriculture. "I don't know any one who fits the place so well as you," wrote Mr. Brand...
There is, to be sure, the question of a personal example set by the Chief Executive. Smith's example would be frankly wet. Mr. Coolidge's is frankly dry. In addition, there is the question of Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. In the history of this country more than one contentious law has been thoroughly reinterpreted by a new court which has changed in membership. Should Smith, by any chance, have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court, the Anti-Saloon League would have good cause for worry...