Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another 4-3 vote last night defeated a violently debated motion to appoint a third assistant superintendent. Committeeman Francis Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, had called the appointment "a flagrant violation of sound educational practice" and an exercise in "cronyism," because the petition hasn't been advertised yet and the Committee hasn't received applications...
...compatriots still disagree about whether to hold out for full independence, try to become part of Jordan again or accept Israeli citizenship in return for full local autonomy and Israeli economic aid. No date has yet been set for the conference, but Ja'abari expects it to appoint an Arab Palestinian to begin negotiations with the Israeli authorities...
Double Trouble. Whatever they were, the consulting paradise ended, at least temporarily, when the Negro-dominated Progressive Liberal Party won control of the Bahamian House of Assembly last January. As one of his first acts, Negro Premier Lynden Pindling asked Queen Elizabeth to appoint a royal commission to delve into his campaign charge that government leaders had accepted questionable fees and that U.S. crime-syndicate members were taking over the casinos. Soon after, Pindling announced that three fugitive Americans, wanted on tax evasion and bookmaking indictments, who were forced out as managers of one of Groves's Grand Bahama...
...President is expected to appoint a majority of Negroes to the council, and possibly a Negro chief executive. Thus, for the first time since Reconstruction, Washington will have a local government that represents its population pattern if not-directly-its people...
...Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...