Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many months German and Italian advisers of General Franco have been urging him to appoint a definite Cabinet (or its equivalent) so that they could present Rightist Spain as a formally constituted Government in asking for foreign recognition. El Caudillo has always refused to do this because of the incessant political bickering among his assorted followers, but strengthened by the fall of Gijón, last week a Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members...
...share of its attention on Hugo LaFayette Black. Struck out was a resolution to hold an investigation of "the latest appointee to the Supreme Court." In its stead the A. B. A. adopted a resolution to petition the U. S. Senate to hold public hearings on all future judicial appointments. Dead set against the President's Court Plan and fearful of his efforts to revive it. the Association voted to appoint a Special Commission of seven members to report any further efforts to enlarge the Supreme Court to the A. B. A. for a referendum, devote itself to maintaining...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle announced he had just appointed a committee of seven lawyers to study criminal procedure in Pennsylvania. Veteran Harrisburg Newspaperman George Her Fisher asked: "Why don't you appoint a layman on it?" Governor Earle snapped back: "O. K., you're on, George." The appointment was made official...
...President Roosevelt, to be the last U. S. President, is God's anointed. Because he is divinely ordained, and also because man's span is 70 years, the President will be allowed to appoint as many Supreme Court Justices as he pleases...
Colonel Robert T. Barton, Richmond, Virginia Democratic Committee Chairman, wrote Lieut.-Governor James H. Price, Democratic nominee for Governor, begging him, if elected, to appoint to his staff "some trenchermen and tanks." Complained Chairman Barton: "I am reliably informed that the Governor of Kentucky's third team can down in these activities any and all opposition in Virginia. The present staff lacks men who can throw good parties...