six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

In 1800, Manthey went abroad and Oersted was appointed manager of the Lion Pharmacy.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

Her husband recently was appointed vice president of the university, bringing them back here from the east.

A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In time, it became natural to group these into provinces and a metropolitan was appointed for each province.

He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of the Orféo Català at Barcelona and often travelled there for that purpose.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

`` You are the ' Peoples' Poet ' '' was her appraisal in 1908, and she stopped teaching and writing to devote herself to the fulfillment of her husband's career.

Poet was the captured, arms pinioned to his side, and he twisted convulsively trying to escape.

As if this was a signal, Poet abruptly began to thrash the water and the quick movement slowly made them sink through the water.

Poet was not fighting Nick now.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

When he graduated, he was named Class Poet.

A case was made by the Oxfordian Peter R. Moore that the Rival Poet was Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

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In 1813 Scott was offered the position of Poet Laureate.

Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.

Poet Harold Massingham also attended this school and was also mentored by Fisher.

Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984, following Sir John Betjeman.

Due to his wide poetic acclaim, Morris was quietly approached with an offer of the Poet Laureateship after the death of Tennyson in 1892, but declined.

Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

The punning nickname Colossus of Roads was given to Telford by his friend, the eventual Poet Laureate, Robert Southey.

An ode in her memory, " So many true princesses who have gone ", composed by the then Master of the King's Musick Sir Edward Elgar to words by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, was sung at the unveiling and conducted by the composer.

That poem was put into music in the 1994 album Anatomy of a Poet, by band In the Nursery.

The first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate was awarded to George Bowering in 2002.

In December, 2011, Fred Wah was named Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada.

The first holder of the title was Bill Manhire who held the post of Poet Laureate from 1998 – 99.

Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340 – 1400 ) was called Poet Laureate, being granted in 1389 an annual allowance of wine.

The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.