Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenants, landlords, and neutrals recommended a well qualified man, Eugene Underwood of New York City's housing program, to the manager three weeks ago. Last week they submitted two more names to the manager, but so far City Manager John Corcoran has taken no action to interview or appoint any of these men. His office states that he has tried repeatedly to interview Mr. Underwood but that Mr. Underwood seems to be unavailable much of the time. Certainly he must have been available once in three weeks...
...sheriff of Middlesex County in Massachusetts has long done little more than march at the head of the Harvard commencement parade and appoint deputies, who made as much as $40,000 a year in fees for process serving. Critics charged that the office was marked by more than a hint of political patronage and monetary kickbacks. Named to the job earlier this year when the longtime Democratic incumbent died, Republican John J. Buckley immediately reformed the office. He hired guidance specialists for the house of corrections, which the sheriff runs, moved to separate juvenile prisoners from older offenders, used student...
...Vice President spent much of the final week in Dixie, denying that he was "reflecting or pushing what the curled-lip boys in the Eastern ivory towers contemptuously call a 'Southern strategy' " -and promising that "this Administration will appoint, and will see confirmed, a Southern strict constructionist on the Supreme Court." At a Navy League dinner in Manhattan, he fired an old-fashioned broadside at members of Congress who have become "viscerally antagonistic toward the whole defense complex." Said Agnew: "Deep down in their hearts is a feeling that international Communism is no longer really dangerous, at least...
...council also voted that if all else fails they will appoint a commission to work with the tenants on this matter...
...premeditated murder? No, said the Army's investigating officer. But he was overruled by superiors who indicated that the death penalty would be asked. It was another example of why critics fault U.S. military justice for "command influence." Despite recent reforms, a convening authority can still order trial, appoint members of the court, prosecutor and military defense lawyer...