Word: appointer
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...believed that Attorney General Herbert Brownell has asked President Eisenhower to appoint Warren and that official confirmation will be forthcoming soon. The vacancy was caused by the death of late Justice Fred M. Vinson...
National Chairman Stephen Mitchell had wanted a banker to be general chairman of the Sept. 14 $100-a-plate feast in Chicago, because the chairmanship was essentially a money-raising job. But the banker he asked suggested that he appoint a lawyer, one John James Kelly. Mitchell checked with Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly, who said that was just fine. Kelly and the mayor are old friends, live in the same apartment building. But after Mitchell appointed Kelly, he learned that his chairman was not an old friend of very many Cook County Democratic organization men. The reaction...
...Lausche wants a federal judgeship, as has been rumored, he would appoint someone pleasing to the Eisenhower Administration. Names mentioned: Republican Arthur Flemming, director of the U.S. Office of Defense Mobilization (whose appointment was called "as certain as death" by the Middletown, Ohio Journal last week); Author-Farmer Louis Bromfield and General Curtis E. LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command...
...Lausche wants to run for the Senate himself in 1954, he probably will appoint Burke to serve out the remaining 16 months of Taft's term and then make a deal to have Burke run for governor next year. Many an Ohio pundit believes that Vote-Getter Lausche, an independent, conservative Democrat who controls the state party organization, could win the senatorial nomination easily and beat any Republican in sight...
...Crown. In the bloody days of partition, when fierce Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir in the fall of 1947, the Maharaja fled with his jade and the necklaces from the temple gods. He paused only to declare his land a part of India, and to appoint Sheik Abdullah Prime Minister. And although Abdullah and 77% of the Kashmiris were Moslems, Abdullah organized a People's Militia that fought the Pakistanis until the Indian army flew in to the rescue. It was a desperate defense, and the Lion of Kashmir inspired it. Once, the Pakistani tribesmen lashed a young merchant...