Word: appointing
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...secret around Washington that Lyndon Johnson would like to become the first President to appoint a Negro to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, Johnson did the next thing to it when he named Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 57, to the prestigious post of U.S. Solicitor General. Marshall will replace Archibald Cox, 53, a former Harvard Law School professor who is resigning after four years of Government service...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, was the man who first suggested to President Johnson that he appoint Arthur Goldberg as ambassador to the United Nations...
What, asked New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy, if the President disagreed as to his incapacity? Could not the President fire his Cabinet and appoint a new and more subservient one to prevent his being replaced? "What we would end up with," Bobby suggested, "would be the spectacle of having two Presidents, both claiming the right to exercise the powers and duties of the presidency." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore had another nightmarish notion. What if an ambitious Vice President were to ally himself with the Cabinet or the "other body"-in other words, "shop around for support...
...good that your magazine reading includes at least one alumni journal. The editors of these publications have worked hard in recent years to make their magazines better looking and better reading. Early this year the American Alumni Council, feeling that their efforts should be recognized, asked TIME to appoint a board of judges to look over the magazines and pick the publication that showed the greatest improvement over the previous year. As it happens, every year for the past twelve we have made another award-to the college or university that has done the best job of keeping in touch...
Social Relations S-147: George Goethals has attracted a fiercely loyal following among Harvard students; their protests, among other things, led the University to appoint him assistant dean of the College after he failed to win tenure in the Soc Rel Department. The course covers "Theories of Personality," Freud and his modifietrs, plus excursions into anthropology and sociology...