Word: appointed
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...receive so much as a post card from anyone telling him to do so. If he wants to appeal his classification, he can learn the proper procedure for going about it only from a tiny pamphlet supplied by the local board. At one time each state was to appoint a government appeals agent to usher a man through the elaborate appeals process, but the position is unfilled in some places and the government agent makes no pretense of aiding his charge in many others...
...Lines, asked in a Detroit speech: "Is there no other way to settle our differences than by open conflict that injures those who have little or no involvement in the strike itself?" New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits has proposed a law under which courts could appoint receivers to operate struck vital facilities...
...questions must be answered. Whereupon all seven justices recused themselves. The last time such a maneuver put the court in a bind was in the Depression 1930s, when the justices ducked a ruling that would have cut their salaries. In such cases, Alabama law requires the Governor to appoint a special court of five lawyers to hand down a decision. Governor Benjamin M. Miller had no trouble rounding up the required number of lawyers and, once on the bench, the substitute judges soon slashed the regular judges...
Maddox, 51, has proved a wilier bird than even his most knowing opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going...
...Edward Brooke is the first Negro since Reconstruction to campaign for the U.S. Senate on a major party ticket. Last November, Cleveland's Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator, came within 2,000 votes of unseating Mayor Ralph Locher, and Houston recently became the first Southern city to appoint a Negro assistant district attorney, Clark Gable Ward...