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Even the makers of the Constitution were unable to agree on the question of the appointment of statutory Federal employes; so a compromise was written to allow the President power to appoint them "by and with the consent of the Senate," without mentioning any procedure for their removal. Then in 1867, the Tenure of Office Act was passed to prevent the President from removing certain classes of postmasters. Last week's decision declares the 1867 act unconstitutional, and interprets in the broadest sense the President's power of removal...
...Reed heard a myriad of tales from a one-time Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan to the general effect that if Senator James E. Watson kept on being a good friend of the Klan he would some day be President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...
Governor Hartley is charged with: 1) "preventing the free expression of the will of the people through their representatives in the Legislature;" 2) failing to put into effect appropriations and laws for state institutions; 3) unjustly removing three University of Washington regents in order to appoint his friends to their offices...
...Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man, who in all regards differs from Stalin, namely, more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious...
...Council assembled at luncheon to honor Alan Cobham, holder of the 28,000-mile world's record for long distance point-to-point-and-return flights-England to Australia and return. Clearing his throat, Sir Samuel Hoare announced that it had pleased His Brittanic Majesty to appoint Airman Cobham a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire...