Crossword-Solution: APPOINTEES 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Second, instead of being political payoffs, the appointees were selected for their expert knowledge, and their intellectual skills became part of the government's decision-making processes.

American leaders, Senators, Congressmen, appointees, lobbyists, in fact much of Washington coddled up to Homosoto.

The collector of the port of New York, in order to make that decree effective, filled my district in Westchester County with appointees from the Custom House.

Waite, one of Lincoln's appointees, gives a circumstantial account of the manner in which Colonel Steptoe was influenced to decline the nomination and sign the petition in favor of Young.* Two women, whose beauty then attracted the attention of Salt Lake City society, were a relative by marriage of Brigham Young and an actress in the church theatre.

Thus by an old law surplus army officers were made to displace the usual civil appointees, undoubtedly a change for the better, but most distasteful to members of Congress, who looked to these appointments as part of their proper patronage.