Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration of the term of the President who appointed him; 2) whether Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary of the Treasury by reason of the law which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce, etc., or the law which forbids Internal Revenue officers engaging...
...appointive officials hold office until their successor is appointed and qualifies by taking the oath of office, unless there is a specific law to the contrary. In the case of the Postmaster General there is such a law-he must be reappointed and confirmed every four years even if the same administration continues in office. †As late as last September (TIME, Sept. 17) Mr. Mellon declared that although he had once owned stock in a distillery, the company had ceased manufacturing three years before prohibition came into effect and he had disposed of the stock before becoming Secretary...
...Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form...
John Chin Hsung Wu. who is a member of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China, will hold one of the three unnamed research fellowships at the Law School during the coming year. Wu received the degree of Doctor of Law from the University of Michigan...
Died. Briton Hadden, 31, of Manhattan, co-founder of TIME; of a streptococcus infection of the blood stream which became fatal when endocarditis developed.* Ill since early last December, he fought strongly against the infection's spread. Aided by blood transfusions every 48 hours he seemed to hold his own and even, for a week after his birthday (Feb. 18), to make progress. Death came suddenly at 4 a. m., Feb. 27, in the Brooklyn Hospital...