Word: reappointing
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...Budde. Little Mr. Budde is the publisher of some weekly throwaways ("You can't cancel your subscription, he'll just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with a burr under its tail. He circulated a petition for a vote to boot out such a graceless officeholder...
...wrote General Hugh S. Johnson, appealing to the President to reappoint him as a brigadier general in the Army Reserve. The War Department had approved General Johnson's application for his fourth reappointment, but last week the President turned him down...
...refusal to reappoint these two men leaves a serious gap in the Department's curriculum, providing no expert tutors in the period from the fall of Rome to the eighteenth century," the letter sent out yesterday stated...
...chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite and familiar commander under whom it had the spirit to beat off Lee at Antietam...
...contemporaries at Harvard, thus creating a special class in the faculty (which would be out of accord with Harvard traditions) ; or else the policy outlined above had to be adopted. No one has had less than a year's notice of the University's intention not to reappoint...