Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee would then elect a chairman, a treasurer, and two freshman representatives to the Council, who would appoint six more officers such as a Dance Committee chairman...
What were those "rights"? The U.S. can request the setting up of an arbitration commission to be composed of Western and Russian representatives plus one neutral. If agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...
John L. Lewis, a man of vivid dislike, has no use for James Boyd. The reason is secondhand: Lewis primarily doesn't like Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, whom Lewis once described as having a "squirt mentality and a balloonized physique." So when Krug got the President to appoint Boyd director of the Bureau of Mines two years ago, Lewis blackballed Boyd...
...which owns the Long Island lock, stock & comic book, had decided to quit footing the bills anyway: the Long Island would have to shift for itself. With only $60,000 cash left in its till, there was nothing left for the Long Island but to ask the court to appoint trustees and reorganize...
Buttles refused to accept two of the twelve resignations; he fired the men instead. Dissatisfied with the way things were going, General Clay stepped in. He ordered Colonel Textor to appoint a three-man board of military government employees, all former U.S. newsmen, to ride herd on the Zeitung and, presumably, Publisher Buttles. Their first step was to "reconsider" the firings and resignations. Indignant at having his judgment questioned, Publisher Buttles quit...