Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yacht Club, as the guests of Commander Ingraham of the United States Naval Academy. A definite decision will be made at this meeting as to whether the plan will be adopted for another year or entirely discontinued, it was ascertained today. The idea of having a neutral body appoint officials for the college football games was first instituted by the late F. W. Moore '93, former Graduate Treasurer of the H. A. A., and it is expected therefore that Harvard will try to have the plan adopted for another year...
Debated and amended a resolution authorizing the President to appoint a commission of experts to investigate the S-4 disaster and submarine safety devices; passed and sent it to Senate...
...Coolidge has repeatedly suggested setting up a federal board to arbitrate in coal emergencies, but- 6) "As emergency is a chronic state in coal," perhaps such a board had better regulate as well as arbitrate. 7) Perhaps the most advisable step of all would be for the operators to appoint an umpire or high commissioner, as in the cinema and baseball industries. Said Secretary Davis: "If ever an industry needed a Tsar, coal is that industry." 8) "The man selected would have to be one of ability, courage, decision and heart; a man of the type of Charles Evans Hughes...
...problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...Irish Free State Government "advised" King-Emperor George V, last week, to appoint a new Governor General to the Irish Free State. His Majesty was further "advised" that an acceptable appointee would be James McNeill, now resident in London as High Commissioner for the Irish Free State...