Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appoint Hitler first cloakroom attendant at the Berchtesgaden home for poor Jews...
...fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing, the committee decided in favor of St. Louis University, which has no technological school and had made no claim...
Said Mr. Bracken: "Young Canadians [overseas] told me that they had gone without adequate trained reinforcements [and] they gave me that message to bring back home. ... I challenge the Government here and now ... to appoint a Royal Commission ... to inquire into and report on the whole matter of reinforcements, desertions and discipline. . . . Let us not have the answer that this cannot be done for security reasons or that it will give comfort to the enemy. That is only another way of saying it will not give comfort to the Government...
...Connecticut's able Democratic Senator Francis Maloney (TIME, Jan. 29), Republicans & Democrats have wrangled over his successor. In Connecticut's Legislature, Republicans control the House, Democrats the Senate. To obviate holding a special election, the House passed a bill giving Republican Governor Raymond Baldwin power to appoint a successor. Democrats balked, said they would not pass the bill until they knew the name of the Governor's choice...
This week Governor Baldwin found a statesmanlike way out of the wrangle. On his weekly radio report to the people, he announced that he would appoint short, tough, salty Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, onetime commander of the Asiatic Fleet. Registered as neither Republican nor Democrat, Tommy Hart will presumably be satisfactory to both sides...