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...Labor-Management Policy, which last week urged that the President be granted extraordinary powers "in any bargaining situation in a major or critical industry which may develop into a dispute threatening the national health or safety." In such cases, the board recommended, the President should be empowered to: 1) appoint an emergency board which, as is now the case with the regulated railroads and airlines, would mediate the dispute and recommend settlement terms; 2) order an 80-day strike postponement without asking court sanction, as the Taft-Hartley law now requires; 3) go to Congress and ask for specific remedial...
...promptly ran into trouble. In 1950 and 1954, Powell was beaten in senatorial primaries; in 1956, he was defeated in the gubernatorial primary. Then, in 1959, he began his current regime as Governor. Last year, when Styles Bridges died. Powell completed his declaration of political independence by refusing to appoint the Senator's widow to his seat...
...believes, however, that the council did not be abolished and seldom commands about the legislature. Recently, act, he praised a legislative commitment after it refused to approve 14 million dollars of the budget he had sub-. His only suggestion for strength- his post is that the governor be to appoint his own department directors...
...remedy, he suggests lengthening the Governor's term to four years from the present two. Peabody's plan would give the governor power to appoint all level state officials--except the general--who are now elected, let the governor appoint his heads upon taking office, forcing him to work through the of his predecessors until their expire...
Pragmatic Approach. Whittaker's resignation brought on a temporary spate of guesses about his successor. Every conceivable possibility, and even some impossibilities such as Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, got mentioned in one list or another. Many guessers supposed that Kennedy would succumb to political temptation and appoint a Negro-among those mentioned were Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William Hastie, Housing Administrator Robert Weaver, and Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall...