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...secretly circulating a round-robin to the President protesting their failure to land jobs for friends. Particularly under fire for failing to appoint deserving Democrats were Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political corruption. If a Republican...
...aspirants was Dr. Alfred Sze, delegate to the League of Nations. Many observers in Shanghai last week predicted that Dr. Koo's tenure would survive only until Dr. Sze's return from Geneva. The Canton faction stubbornly regarded Dr. Koo as only minister protem, hopeful of a chance to get its own Eugene Chen or Dr. C. C. Wu into the office permanently...
...Committee as it now stands is composed of the following men: Professor G. G. Wilson, chairman, Professor G. H. Chase '96, chairman, protem, W. J. Bingham, '16, treasurer, Dean Willard Sperry, A. S. Johnson '85, R. H. Holt, '11, George Wiggelsworth '74, Winslow Carlton '29, James Roosevelt '30 and J. H. Lane...
...number of such seamen protem,' has increased since the appearance of federally operated boats," he declared. "Thus, of the thousands who feel the wanderlust when school is closing, hundreds possess fathers who know somebody who knows somebody else who has a friend on the Government payroll.. So they gain access with their brand-new oilskins and their letters of introduction to ship offices on Broadway, New York, while the old-timers wait outside...
...take pleasure in announcing the election protem of Frederick Ezekiel Bissell of the Sophomore class as Assistant Managing Editor of the CRIMSON, in place of William Mansfield Scudder enlisted in the 1st Regiment of U.S. Volunteer Cavalry...