Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masters and other statutory Federal officials. This vital decision was made last week in a suit brought by the late Frank S. Myers to recover back pay for the full period of his appointment as Portland, Ore., Postmaster. President Wilson had removed him without a hearing and without the consent of the Senate. The Court said last week that he could not get his pay: he was legally ousted...
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...
...Will consent to be Jake Shubert's servile...
...months ago, Governor Hartley turned his attention to the Board of seven Regents which governs the University of Washington. Giving no reasons, he removed five of these functionaries, presumably with the "advice and consent" of the state senate as required by law, and made new, judicious appointments. Last month, Governor Hartley must have been glad of this step for after he had stumped the state with another appropriation-slashing program, the people of Washington rebuffed him in the primary, elected a legislature more un-Hartleyfied than ever. This time Dr. Suzzallo was loudly accused of exercising his right...
...been formed. Older men, brought up in the traditions of the torchlight parade when voting was almost a religious duty, still respond to the call and by casting their ballot give a democratic form of government the life blood, which it needs Government, it is said, rests on the consent of the governed. This imposes on all of us--"the governed"--an obligation which under a monarchy we would not have. Unfortunately statistics show that in some cases only about 40 per cent accept the obligation and that consequently one-third of the country rules the other two thirds...