Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Truman is reported planning to appoint former North Carolina Senator Frank S. Graham to the $15,000-a-year post...
...reason for many of the improvements the Council has made in the past ten years has been the Cambridge Civic Association. This non-partisan voters' organizations, headed by Donald Spencer '26, has pressured the legislators year after year to put through school improvements and appoint better men to the government. This good government has proved an asset to the University and its students...
Last week the Dutch government asked Parliament to dissolve the Finsterwolde town council and appoint Harm Tuin "governmental commissioner." Said Harm Tuin: "It isn't nice to be a dictator. On the other hand, it makes my work simpler...
...injurious to the independence of science as many of my friends among the non-signers do, I feel the greatest admiration for those who, for the maintenance of an important principle which they considered endangered, gave up their positions; and I sincerely hope that other universities will appoint them as soon as possible. Hans Kelsen, Visiting Lecturer on Government
Another revision, although less conspicuous than the others, may well prove to be the most significant. Future councils are obligated to appoint from four to six men each year to work solely on long-term advisory projects. In the past the group could (but did not have to) appoint three extra members, and usually failed to do so. The new appointive members can restore the importance of the council by making investigations in the tradition of the 1949 Poskanzer Report...