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...Mitchell, professed great enthusiasm at this latest Roosevelt reform. Cocky Republicans claimed their attacks on the President and "General" Farley were solely responsible for bringing it about. But wiseacres pointed out that the order could not possibly embarrass the Democratic machine. If reelected, Franklin Roosevelt has only to reappoint the Democrats now in office, after they satisfy the Commission that they are literate. If Governor Landon is elected, he will have either to rescind last week's order, and thus be accused of wrecking the civil service, or else carry it out, and take a drubbing from deserving Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Rule of One | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Appointed a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank was Owen D. Young, who was dropped last December after 13 years' service when the Federal Reserve Board refused to reappoint men who had sat on Reserve directorates for more than six years. Mr. Young's return to Reserve service not only marked a reversal of a much-criticized policy: it also provided the Board with a suitable figure to act as chairman of the New York Reserve Bank. Last winter Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles ap-Brothers and Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...spring U. S. college administrators traditionally pause to reappraise their faculties, promote promising men, reappoint others, bundle a few off to look for new jobs. In Lincoln, Neb. fortnight ago word reached John P. Weller, 39, an instructor in the University of Nebraska's French Department, that in June he would be eased out with a year's leave of absence at half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dismissal | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Mac Arthur Continued | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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