Word: reappoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German crisis had already run 14 days since the resignation of Lieut.-Colonel von Papen's "Cabinet of Monocles"; and because last week only four more days remained before the newly elected Reichstag was scheduled to meet. The thing to do, President von Hindenburg decided, was to reappoint his favorite protégé, Chancellor Franz von Papen...
With conservative railroad executives the least popular member of the Interstate Commerce Commission is Joseph Bartlett Eastman of Massachusetts. They consider him "dangerously radical." Vainly did they implore President Hoover not to reappoint him. Last week in Manhattan Commissioner Eastman, twelve years in office, made a speech about government ownership which explained in part why railmen dislike him. Excerpts...
...Rudiger von Star-hernberg, trounced at the last election (TIME, Nov. 17), failed last week to make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...
Stung by these attacks and challenged by the knottiness of his unfinished assignment, Chairman Legge asked President Hoover to reappoint him to office "until the shooting is over and this thing is safely on its feet." Last week President Hoover gladly complied with this request, renominated Mr. Legge as head of the Farm Board for six years-long enough to make or break the current farm experiment and Mr. Hoover's maximum expectancy for White House residence. Although many a Senator violently criticized Mr. Legge's policies, the Senate last week recognized his sportsmanship, confirmed his nomination...
...Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...