Word: appointed
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...COURTS The history of the English constitution is largely one of struggle toward an independent, qualified judiciary (in the Magna Carta, King John covenanted that "we will appoint as justices . . . only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well"). The men who shaped the governments of the U.S. and its states were acutely conscious of the importance of a judiciary free to act without fear or favor toward the executive and legislative branches. In the post-revolutionary period nearly all judges-state as well as federal-were named by appointment and got life tenure...
...fact that whereas Britain's flashy prototypes dazzle the air-show crowd at Farnborough. the production models rarely come up to expectations. Designers criticize the government for "messing around with modifications" until the aircraft type is obsolete. Laborite Wyatt announced that he will ask Prime Minister Churchill to appoint a royal commission to look into the whole situation...
...Canadian Senate has no fewer than 20 vacancies for its lifetime, $10,000-a-year jobs. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was expected to appoint new Senators for the reopening of Parliament last month. But for a reason never made public, the vacant seats were not filled. Last week the secret leaked out: one of St. Laurent's proposed appointments was blocked by the Roman Catholic Church, and he postponed, at least temporarily, his plan for Senate reform...
Seven Tories. Historically, Senate appointments have been political plums, dealt out to the faithful by the party in power. When the government alternated with some frequency between Liberals and Tories, party strength in the Senate kept fairly well balanced. Today, however, after 19 years of uninterrupted Liberal control, the Tories' Senate strength has dwindled to seven seats; the Liberals hold 75. Liberal St. Laurent would scarcely appoint Tory politicians. But he hoped that his non-political appointments would correct some of the Senate's imbalance. Intimates reported that he was deeply disappointed at the church's veto...
Amid all the hustle, some Panamanians wondered about Miró's confession that he machine-gunned Remón with Guizado's knowledge so that Guizado could appoint Miró to a high and profitable job. Was that the whole story? Did it somehow seem too simple? Two New York City detectives, who were lent to Panama and helped get Miró's confession, pointedly stayed on for further investigation...