When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.

When David ascended the throne of Judah, Abiathar was appointed High Priest ( 1 Chr.

When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.

When a Dictator entered office, he appointed to serve as his second-in-command a magister equitum, the Master of the Horse, whose office ceased to exist once the Dictator left office.

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

When Chiang became President of China after the Northern Expedition, he carved out Ningxia and Qinghai out of Gansu province, and appointed Muslim Generals as Military Governors of all three provinces: Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, and Ma Qi.

When over 25, 000 of these royalists — led by General Danican — assaulted Paris, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras was appointed to defend the capital ; outnumbered five to one and disorganized, the Republicans were desperate.

When Cyril ’ s bishop Maximus died Cyril was appointed bishop by Acasius of Caesaria, who was himself an Arian and viewed Cyril as a theological ally.

When the earlier disputes broke out into the so-called Mormon War of 1838, Atchison was appointed a major general in the state militia and took part in suppression of the violence by both sides.

When Bacon was appointed Lord Chancellor, " by special Warrant of the King ", Lady Bacon was given precedence over all other Court ladies.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

When Blanchflower was sacked, Hurst was appointed manager.

When a Governor-General is overseas on official duties or unable to perform official functions, or the office is vacant, the senior state governor is appointed as Administrator of the Commonwealth, and is effectively acting Governor-General.

When a dispute between the capetanei of Laconia and the appointed governor of the province escalated into an armed conflict, he called in Russian troops to restore order, because much of the army was controlled by capetanei who were part of the rebellion.

When Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander for the planned Normandy Landings he suggested that Alexander become ground forces commander, as he was popular with both British and US officers.

When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son in 1797 as Minister to Prussia at Washington's urging.

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.

When the Civil War ended, and the Indian Wars campaigns were in a lull, Carson was breveted a General and appointed commandant of Ft. Garland, Colorado, the heart of Ute country.

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

When Leszek Miller got cleared of the charges, Prime Minister Cimoszewicz appointed him later as the Minister in Charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers and in 1997 the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration in his government.

When Peter Sutherland was appointed the Republic of Ireland's European Commissioner, Labour demanded the choice of the next Attorney General.

When Shoghi Effendi died in 1957, Remey and the other Hands of the Cause met in a private Conclave at Bahjí in Haifa, and determined that he hadn't appointed a successor.

When publication, teaching, and public funding of science is decided by peer committees, academic standards, and elected or appointed boards, the allegation can arise that a work's acceptability has been assessed " politically ".

When the detective left, Andrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to advise the network to get a substitute director for his current project.

When the plague takes a grip on the town, Grand joins the team of volunteers, acting as general secretary, recording all the statistics.

" When the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne, according to Calvin under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter.

When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as president in 1801, he named Madison to be his secretary of state.

When Lincoln won election as president, his secretary, John G. Nicolay, recommended John Hay to Lincoln as assistant private secretary.

When French police arrested Abu Daoud, one of the chief organizers of the Munich massacre, and inquired about extraditing him to Germany, Germany's justice secretary Alfred Seidl recommended that Germany should not take any action, causing the French to release Abu Daoud and the Assad regime to shelter him until he died at a Damascus hospital in 2010.

When the Labour government took over after the general election in May 1997, the new transport secretary ( and deputy prime minister ) John Prescott took a much harder line.

When, in 784, the imperial secretary Patriarch Tarasius was appointed successor to the Patriarch Paul IV, he accepted on the condition that intercommunion with the other churches should be reestablished ; that is, that the images should be restored.

When rioting over economic conditions broke out in late 1970, Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary.

When Blunden returned to England in 1927, Aki accompanied him and would become his secretary.

When the film was first released, Walter Francis White, the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) telegraphed major newspapers around the country with the following statement:

When Secretary William H. Woodin fell ill, Acheson suddenly found himself acting secretary despite his ignorance of finance.

When he became secretary, the authorized force in Vietnam was 525, 000.

" When the emperor heard of this, he sent an imperial secretary to investigate this prophecy.

When Chamberlain resigned in 1903, Marsh became private secretary to his successor, Alfred Lyttelton.

When a scheme to unite a number of government offices on the site of Somerset House in the Strand was projected, his position did not give him automatic authoriy over the construction ; however when William Robinson, secretary to the board, who had been put in charge of the new building, died in 1775, Chambers became its architect.

When training for a fight against Lee Ramage, Louis noticed a young female secretary for the black newspaper Chicago Defender at the gym.

When asked his greatest accomplishment as secretary, Bill Perry didn't name an operation or a weapons system.

When Satō became prime minister in 1965, Tanaka was slated to become the LDP's new secretary general, but the emergence of the Black Mist Scandal, where Tanaka was accused of shady land deals in Tokyo, meant that Takeo Fukuda got the job instead.

When the police investigate, Boult's secretary Eileen Perrin lies that Harry did not come to the office that day.

When she declines Frederick's proposal, he marries his secretary Alicia Torgersen, who fires LouLou following her honeymoon.

When he refused despite personal appeals from President Kennedy and the assistant secretary of state, his CIA handler was transferred out of Laos and in February 1962 aid was cut to his government and army.

When Mr. Bush became the President in 2001, he tapped Fleischer to become the first press secretary of his administration.

When the prince fell at the battle of Prague, Gleim became secretary to Prince Leopold of Dessau ; but he soon gave up his position, not being able to bear the roughness of the " Old Dessauer.