Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least one commissioner, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, that conditions in Hough were "the worst I have seen." After the commission urged city officials to show "a more positive attitude" toward Cleveland's Negroes, Mayor Locher's response was to appoint a committee to report on the commission's report...
...conferred about housing, job opportunities, police brutality and other issues. They got nowhere. Daley later charged that workers on King's staff were in large measure responsible for the violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that he would appoint a citizens committee to scrutinize police procedures, especially in the force's dealings with minorities. He also promised to use federal funds for additional swimming pools and playground facilities for the Negroes. And Daley ordered the immediate installation of sprinklers on hydrants - as New York City has done - so that...
Nearly 80 nations have deemed the European Economic Community important enough to appoint ambassadors to represent them at the EEC in Brussels, and Common Market President Walter Hallstein has long been accustomed to greeting the emissaries in style. He arranged for a red carpet all the way to the curb of 23 Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée when a new ambassador presented his credentials; the newcomer was then whisked by private elevator to Hallstein's eighth-floor suite, and, after a striped-pants ceremony, Hallstein would break out champagne. It was just what any head of state...
...many states, probate judges appoint favored lawyers to help executors appraise estates for taxes. Appraisers' fees come out of the estate, and are often based on the size of the estate as the appraisers calculate it. As to how appraisers get their jobs, Detroit Probate Judge Ernest C. Boehm could hardly be franker: "Naturally I select men who have helped me in my campaign...
...York, "special guardians" are often named to protect the interests of "infants," meaning heirs under 21. The state's surrogate judges appoint guardians without public notice of their names or fees. One guardian recently got $15,000 for ten hours' work on a $700,000 estate. Rumor has it that New York's guardians return about 30% of their fees to party coffers, which suggests the political leverage of Manhattan's two surrogates (annual salaries: $37,000), who last year appointed 428 guardians while handling estates with a gross value of $941 million. Not surprisingly...