Word: reappoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued him in office another 30 days. Secretary of War Dern sorely needed General MacArthur to push military legislation in the coming Congress, to continue his army modernization plans. Despite a law which specifies four years of service for the General Staff Corps, Secretary Dern wanted the President to reappoint General MacArthur for another four years. Seldom bound by legal convention, and apparently without a substitute to relieve General MacArthur, President Roosevelt last week retained him in office indefinitely simply by writing a letter to that effect to the Secretary...
...which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...
Straightforward and outspoken, President von Hindenburg has never concealed his preference for Franz von Papen as Chancellor. "With a heavy heart," he declared amid the Cabinet crisis last fall, "I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet." Next day, ousted von Papen received a photograph of Der Reichspräsident inscribed in Old Paul's firm hand, Ich hatte einen Kameraden ("I had a Comrade"). By last week Comrade von Papen had convinced Comrade von Hindenburg that the best interests...
...Paul yielded with extreme reluctance. It hurt him to drop von Papen, his favorite, even on the advice of von Schleicher whom he trusts. In a blazingly frank press communique, Old Paul announced that he was acting "with a heavy heart. . . . I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet...
...most objectionable to Colonel von Papen in Germany is his former Minister of Interior, Baron von Gayl who is everywhere suspected of having urged the "Cabinet of Monocles" to scrap the Republican Constitution and restore Hohenzollern rule. Last week Chancellor von Schleicher avoided re-appointing Baron von Gayl, did reappoint in his Cabinet most other members of the "Cabinet of Monocles." The new slate...