Word: appointing
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President Pusey awarded the prize on Wednesday at a noon luncheon. The award is administered by senior faculty members from a variety of disciplines who compose the Syndics of the Harvard University Press. They appoint an ad hoc selection committee of other scholars outside Harvard to choose the winner...
When President Roosevelt was about to appoint Cordell Hull Secretary of State, five Democratic Senators complained that Hull was too idealistic for the job. The objection was unusual, and F.D.R. laughed it off; but this first biography of Hull shows that the Senators had a point...
With that landmark opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court last year forced all state criminal courts to appoint lawyers for all indigent defendants charged with more than petty crimes. Since 60% of criminal defendants are indigent, hundreds of U.S. lawyers are in for heavy duty. And since the rule may apparently be applied retroactively, as a New York federal court recently ruled, hundreds of convicts are now appealing for new trials-getting their legal counsel from that grand old penal institution, the self-taught jailhouse lawyer...
Lodge's name is anathema in the South, where Republicans this year hope to pick up some electoral votes even against Lyndon Johnson. Texas' National Committeeman Albert Fay bitterly remembers how Vice Presidential Candidate Lodge, without consulting anyone, made a Harlem speech pledging the Nixon Administration to appoint a Negro as a Cabinet member. Nixon publicly disavowed the promise, but the damage was done. "That murdered us in Texas," says Fay, who also canceled a Lodge appearance in Houston when Lodge refused to stay at a segregated hotel. Says Florida State Chairman Tom Fairfield Brown: "You know, when...
Besides the Faculty committee, Pusey will also appoint an advisory committee to advise in planning the scope and character of the program. This second committee will include representatives of industry, labor, and federal and state governments...