Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms from two years to four. Since his brief hearings on these matters were largely unencumbered by the presence of other Senators, Chairman Langer got subcommittee approval by quick telephone calls to his colleagues. This procedure has also placed before the full committee amendments to 1) let governors appoint Congressmen in the event of national disaster, 2) nominate presidential candidates in direct primaries, and 3) require the granting of full citizenship to all American Indians...
...three speakers made similar proposals as alternatives to present investigating practices. Both Griswold and Jefferson B. Fordham, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, suggested that Congress appoint an independent commission such as that now investigating the Oppenheimer case. This commission would take over the duties presently carried out by the Velde, Jenner, and McCarthy Committee...
Many of the companies that realize the value of public relations still regard the job as a mere offshoot of advertising or a task for a gladhander. They appoint incompetents (of which the field is full), and assign them a spot so far down on the table of organization that they often have no knowledge of what the company is planning-or why. Such public-relations-minded companies as Ford, G.M. and Lockheed long ago learned that their top public-relations men must sit in on policymaking decisions to keep the public informed...
...Appoint a British minister to sit in EDC council meetings, and a British member of EDC's proposed Board of Commissioners...
...that explanation was promptly brushed aside. Acquaintances said Spyros' health was, if anything, better since he had given up his habitual daily diet of 120 monogrammed cigarettes and 40 cups of coffee. A more likely reason for the resignation: Markezinis was piqued because three times Papagos refused to appoint men of the Economic Minister's choosing to the Cabinet, and refused to make Markezinis Vice Premier. Athenians also guessed that the two men would soon mend their differences. "If this had happened in the army," said one, "the Old Man would merely have confined him to barracks...