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...Passed a bill authorizing the President to appoint a $10,000-a-year minister to the Union of South Africa...
Because Australian Laborites definitely routed Australian Nationalists at the last election (TIME, Oct. 21), Mr. Scullin now feels strongly enough, as "his majesty's prime minister in Australia," to advise George V to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs the new governor general. If given, His Majesty must take the advice. It was a question last week only of whether Sir Isaac Isaacs would consent to accept appointment. With deliberation becoming to a Chief Justice he pondered all week, kept Mr. Scullin, Dominion, King and Empire waiting...
...Supreme Court is to retain its function as the moulder of the Constitution in eventual accordance with the popular mandate, it is essential to appoint to it men of high quality and broad outlook. For example, the men who may one day sit in judgment on the Volstead Act ought to have in view impending disruption and obvious corruption as well as intricacies in wording of the law itself. And Judge Parker, from all that can be discovered, seems neither broadminded nor first-rate, and although certainly it is unfair for partisan purposes to criticize appointments to this tribunal certainly...
Parties. "One of the best ways to leave certain regions of the chapter house free for informal activity of an unsupervisable nature during house parties is to appoint a 'steering committee' of students. The members of this committee take turns in flattering and cajoling the house mother and in occupying her mind with high and noble thoughts for whatever length of time is deemed desirable. Not only is this of immediate value but if by chance the entertainment be gastronomic and sufficiently prolonged and varied, it may produce results so vital to the ancient lady that...
...sure we continue to re-hash the Monroe Doctrine. We appoint and send commissioners to investigate, to advise, to report. We maintain our traditional aloofness to foreign entanglements. Why not consider the state rights of citizens of the Western Hemisphere in line with our own political experience? In the meanwhile our sister republics read and reread TIME. The unofficial promise it contains, the friendly American grin it brings to mind vanishes dread bugaboos of imperialistic satraps and oil barons...