Word: appointed
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...query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...
Cronin has previously announced that he will appoint a University official as deputy Civilian Defense chief in the college. Cronin's plans for the University include calling all students for voluntary service as air raid wardens. He will assign students to the fire, police, medical, and rescue departments. Those not assigned will form a manpower pool which will be drawn upon in the event of an attack...
...Republican members of the U.S. Senate, call upon the President to appoint a new Secretary of State at the earliest possible time," wrote Ives in a resolution submitted to the Republican policy committee. ". . . Unless this change ... is made, our efforts to cooperate must prove futile and national disunity and lack of confidence are likely to increase." In the House, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, onetime national chairman of the party, echoed the demand-without the threat implied in Ives's "efforts to cooperate" clause...
President Truman is reported planning to appoint former North Carolina Senator Frank S. Graham to the $15,000-a-year post...
...reason for many of the improvements the Council has made in the past ten years has been the Cambridge Civic Association. This non-partisan voters' organizations, headed by Donald Spencer '26, has pressured the legislators year after year to put through school improvements and appoint better men to the government. This good government has proved an asset to the University and its students...