Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News is bigoted because it reveals that a Catholic clergyman is capable of sin? If the Church in the archdiocese of San Francisco is so decrepit that it will totter if it becomes known that one of its priests woos John Barleycorn, Pope Pius would do well to appoint a capable successor to Archbishop Mitty...
...year-old present constitution is tailor-made for men of bad will who would make themselves the law. Under it, a governor has so little power that he cannot appoint his own cabinet; he is subject to the will of boss-appointed "department heads." A fabulous bureaucracy has arisen: 135 separate state departments, and an archaic, top-heavy judicial setup of 17 different state court systems-many controlled by Hague. The new constitution would give the governor his own cabinet and more power, would cut the departments to 20 and the court system to six, would replace the bulky...
McGoldrick, lawyer son of a onetime New York State Supreme Court Justice, got over drinking with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous four years ago. Last year, when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to appoint him an assistant corporation counsel, he refused, asked to be allowed to work with drunkards instead...
...open controversies . . . have been so frequent and chronic as to point beyond the particular individuals ... to administrative failures on the part of the President himself. It will generally be found that he has either failed to appoint the right man to a key position; or failed to delegate sufficient power for the task ostensibly assigned; or failed to make clear to each official from the beginning precisely where his own power and responsibility began and ended; or failed to prevent duplication and conflict of powers; or failed to support an official fully . . .; or failed to discipline or remove an official...
...Heinrich Himmler was now the Reich's "Iron Boss." He could appoint, promote, execute any officer in any civil or military job on the say-so of nothing higher than his own conscience...