Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second number they criticized the uni-("in the academy, grades, fellowships, appoint-versities for encouraging responsibility to things ments; in the world, wealth, social standing, etc.") which they felt to be external. They said that such responsibility "is in fact the irresponsibility of the individual to himself." They were not denying corporate responsibility, but emphasizing that it "can only exist meaningfully as the organization of each human's responsibility towards his own dignity...
Last week the Executive Committee of the National Committee authorized National Chairman Paul H. Butler to appoint the group, in response to pressure from big-city leaders who felt that the party was losing ground in its traditionally strong areas. They maintained that only by pushing a vigorous legislative program in Congress could the party regain this support. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson has opposed this course, contending that the Democrats should offer no program until President Eisenhower has produced one, which they might then seek to change or replace...
...generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made him assistant chief of war plans, then chief, then ordered Ike to draw up an organization plan for the European Theater. So well was it drawn that, on Marshall's urging, Franklin Roosevelt reached far down through the ranks to appoint Ike the ETO's Commander in Chief...
...does have the experience in foreign affairs that Wagner lacks. But Javits has used this knowledge to support Dulles rather than attack him. Moreover his beliefs in civil liberties have been somewhat undermined by his refusal to take office, if elected, until the Republican Legislature in New York has appointed his successor, rather than let the Governor appoint one. As a result, he will not be present in the Senate when the important debate to curtail filibusters (and thus aid civil rights) will be taken...
...never been considered advantageous for a President to create a recess appointment to the Court, that is, to appoint a Justice to fill a place on the Court before the Senate can give its assent in January. Such an act enables a Justice who may not be confirmed by the Senate to participate in vital decisions. The difficulty is compounded in an election year, for should Stevenson win, he is immediately subject to the obvious pressure of allowing Brennan to remain on the bench. Although Brennan is a Democrat, he was, according to legal sources, probably not Stevenson's first...