Word: appointement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When war with Spain was declared (April, 1898), Surgeon General Sternberg had already arranged to appoint women as army nurses serving under contract with the government. Selection of these nurses was put in my hands, and in August when about 1,000 women had entered the service, I was placed on duty directly under him as Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, the organization of which began at once. Before the end of '98, members of the Corps had done the nursing at the several hospitals of each of our big camps-Montauk, Chickamauga and Jacksonville, at 31 other...
...that the ballots for next year's Student Council elections must be put in the mail by tonight in order to be counted. Seven members of the Council will be chosen from the Junior Class, while three Sophomores will also be elected. These ten men, after their election, will appoint five more to complete the Council, three Juniors and two Sophomores. In this choice, an attempt will be made to represent all of the seven Houses in the Council...
...such requirement the success of the proposal is more doubtful but none the less possible. The superiority which men who have had this training will show over the beneficiaries of the spoils system or of the present inadequate civil service examinations, may force even a politician to appoint for ability rather than personal service. Since this method of offering such a course as this has never been tried before, it is impossible to predict the outcome, but the importance of the service concerned leads one to expect success. At any rate there can be no doubt about the worth...
...Like every other anachronistic institution in Britain," Scot MacDonald told a Labor audience at Worksop, "the House of Lords must be subject to the will, desire and mandate of the electors. We shall appoint new peers when they are necessary to do our work. The House of Lords has acted not as a national body but as a subordinate or subcommittee of Tory headquarters. The time has arrived when that has got to be stopped!" (Cheers...
Overseer Voliva announced that next July he will formally appoint Apostle Michael Mintern, 45, to be his successor, in charge of all church affairs. He will leave Zion, devote the rest of his days to spreading his religion throughout the world. To insure Zion from ever being broken up he has incorporated the business interests-candy factory, bakery, curtain factory, etc. etc.-at $5,000,000 with $2,000.000 worth of stock on the market, Zionites to have first chance to buy. Apostle Mintern will be vice president of this corporation...