Word: reappointing
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...