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...conferred about housing, job opportunities, police brutality and other issues. They got nowhere. Daley later charged that workers on King's staff were in large measure responsible for the violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that he would appoint a citizens committee to scrutinize police procedures, especially in the force's dealings with minorities. He also promised to use federal funds for additional swimming pools and playground facilities for the Negroes. And Daley ordered the immediate installation of sprinklers on hydrants - as New York City has done - so that...
...many states, probate judges appoint favored lawyers to help executors appraise estates for taxes. Appraisers' fees come out of the estate, and are often based on the size of the estate as the appraisers calculate it. As to how appraisers get their jobs, Detroit Probate Judge Ernest C. Boehm could hardly be franker: "Naturally I select men who have helped me in my campaign...
...York, "special guardians" are often named to protect the interests of "infants," meaning heirs under 21. The state's surrogate judges appoint guardians without public notice of their names or fees. One guardian recently got $15,000 for ten hours' work on a $700,000 estate. Rumor has it that New York's guardians return about 30% of their fees to party coffers, which suggests the political leverage of Manhattan's two surrogates (annual salaries: $37,000), who last year appointed 428 guardians while handling estates with a gross value of $941 million. Not surprisingly...
...moment. He knows I think so. We hope he'll run, and I think he has the best chance." As for his own future, Scranton, whose gubernatorial duties continue until next January, did not slam the door on Washington speculation that Lyndon Johnson may want to appoint him an ambassador. "As far as appointive positions are concerned, I haven't given any thought to any of them anywhere, and I won't until I'm out of office." For the moment, he said, "no job has been offered me in business or in Government...
Harry F. Byrd Sr., the man who built the machine and set it running when he was elected governor in 1926, retired from the Senate last November after running unopposed for reelection in 1964. Seventy-eight years old and stricken with arthritis, he had outgoing governor Albertis S. Harrison appoint "Young Harry," 51, to take his place. Virginia liberals and moderates railed against the "hereditary succession" and prepared to take on Byrd Jr. and Robertson in the state Democratic primary July...