Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cabinet, because traditional hostility of cabinet and Congress would cause personal attacks, badgering, etc.: Morrill, 422; Cox, 442-3. - (2) Of President, for criticism would indirectly injure him.- (b) Business of departments would suffer from absence of heads; Morrill, 424. - (c) It would force President to appoint cabinet officers for parliamentary ability rather than for executive power; Nation, XXVIII, 243. - (d) It would increase party dissensions: Cox, 438; Hare, Const. Law, I, 178. - (e) Serious complications would arise when executive and legislative were of different parties...
...division of responsibility. To illustrate these evils, suppose there is a vacancy in the municipal government. The mayor is immediately surrounded by a horde of office-seekers, most of them members of the board of Aldermen which confirms the mayor's appointee. They compel him to appoint the man they want or refuse their confirmation. As a rule the mayor is forced to make a "deal." The appointee, too, must pledge himself to whatever the confirming board demands. This is the condition under which many of the appointments are made. The trouble lies in the division of the responsibility between...
...Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have decided to appoint five chaplains of different denominations to conduct the chapel exercises...
...belonging to the college, and a tract of land known as Adelaide Park have been considered. There is no doubt that, could the land be found, the funds could easily be raised to fit it up. At the last meeting of the athletic committee it was voted to appoint from the executive committee of each athletic association one man to act on a committee to investigate the matter...
...been customary, we believe, for the president of the junior class to appoint a committee of five, of which he is himself chairman, to undertake the management of the dinner. He should do this in time to enable the committee to complete all the necessary arrangements for the dinner and announce the date a considerable time ahead...