Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courts of inquiry, which the Minister of Labor may appoint if a major public interest is at stake...
Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Law here, had his stock boosted for the position of Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court when Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska urged President Roosevelt to appoint the original New Deal "braintruster...
...convoked in rump convention at Toledo by the supporters of the five U. A. W. officials who were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch it up-presumably by kicking out President Martin. Cried Wyndham Mortimer, chief spokesman for the rump officials: "We need a C. I. 0. director with power to pull us out. We are a very sick union...
...told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives to fix the value of the claims, and decide on a manner of payment in accordance with "Mexican...
Since Douglas had demanded reorganization, this strategy called for appointment of a committee to study reorganization, then delay on the job long enough for the crisis to blow over. Accordingly, the governors voted for such a committee, gave Gay the right to appoint it. But Gay had seen the light. Viewing the crash (by then the Dow-Jones average had dropped to 113), the depression and Douglas' determination, Gay decided it was time to play ball. To the fury of the Old Guard, he appointed a genuinely liberal committee headed by a non-Exchange member, Carle Cotter Conway, dynamic...