Word: reappointment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan. 28). Four days before the opening of the trial, last week, she resigned her office. Governor-Suspend Johnston announced that, if he were acquitted, he would not reappoint her "in any capacity whatsoever...
...appointed this year. In the past year a committee formed of the four officers and two other members of the Council was designated to meet with the Dean when advisable, rather than that the entire Council should take part in these meetings. It has not been thought desirable to reappoint such a committee, and the Dean will this year meet with the entire Council when necessary...
Meanwhile, in New Albany, Ind., 700 students were reported on strike because the school trustees reappoint a high school principal and an aged botany teacher...
...President last week exercised his first veto on any bill passed by the present Congress - a bill directing him to reappoint one Captain Chester A. Roth well, who was discharged from the Engineering Corps of the Army because twelve Generals on an Efficiency Board had found that the Captain was "lacking in attention to duty, initiative and administrative ability, careless, indifferent and failing to take advantage of his opportunities for employment." The President decided to uphold the Efficiency Board, since he had no reason for reversing...
...Director of Public Safety (Police Commissioner) of Philadelphia. Some months ago, General Butler was granted leave from the Marines in order to take the post and clean up Philadelphia. Friction developed between him and the reigning politicians of the city. It was believed that Mayor Kendrick would not reappoint General Butler. The Law Enforcement League declared that it had evidences of "political corruption all down the line in Pennsylvania." The President turned the matter over to Attorney General Stone, who promised investigation and "appropriate action...