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...life of the country. It has permitted itself to remain so powerless that its only attitude must be humble supplication. Authority should be lodged with the President and the Departments of Commerce and Labor, giving them power to deal with an emergency. They should be able to appoint temporary boards with authority to call for witnesses and documents, conciliate differences, encourage arbitration, and in case of threatened scarcity exercise control over distribution...
...case of Senator Nye, Newcomer No. 4, is complicated because there are doubts as to the legality of his appointment. The regular Republicans are inclined to treat him much as they expect to treat Mr. LaFollette. But the legality of his appointment hangs on the question of whether a state law empowering the Governor of North Dakota to appoint state officers until the next election is applicable. Is a U.S. Senator a state officer? There is a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court which pretty well establishes that a U. S. Senator is a state officer...
...most amusing and amazing to me, for example, to be asked, as I was soon after my election, whether I expected to appoint any men to office? This question, telegraphed to me from the East by a well-known metropolitan newspaper, had every indication of being quite sincere, and was apparently inspired by the fear that the elevation of women to executive office was likely to be followed by the dismissal of all men and the substitution of women in their places...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions announced at New York that Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...
...Burke '27, assistant manager of the football team, was appointed chairman of the Senior Dormitory Committee. He will appoint an unlimited number of his classmates to serve with him in handling the draw for rooms in the Senior Dormitories and in allotting rooms. This is something of an intricate process, in-asmuch as applications are made anonymously, the Juniors assuming names either singly or in groups. The allotments are made by drawings, with preference in most cases going to the groups applying for entire entries...