Word: appointing
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Fallen Timbers. The figure in the background who dominated them all was Washington. As President under the new Constitution, he used the strengthened powers of the national government to prevent war with Britain while the settlements grew, to negotiate the eventual British evacuation of the lakes posts, and to appoint "Mad Anthony" Wayne to command a federal army to take the field against the Indians...
Gideon, now 52, already had a prison record when he was arrested in 1961, charged with breaking into a pool hall with intent to commit burglary. At his trial in a Florida state court, he asked the judge to appoint a lawyer to defend him. The judge denied the request, pointed out that under Florida law the court was required to appoint counsel only when a person was charged with a capital crime. Gideon conducted his own defense, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. When the Supreme Court ruled on his petition last March...
Improving Justice. While the Gideon decision will undoubtedly lead to the freeing of many prisoners who were guilty as charged, it has also improved the processes of justice in new criminal cases in Florida. After the Supreme Court ruling, Florida speedily passed a public-defender law requiring courts to appoint counsel in criminal cases unless the defendant explicitly waives his right to counsel. And courts have begun to keep fuller, more careful records in all criminal prosecutions...
...Baptist dispute began in 1845 with a quarrel between Northern and Southern churches over whether Scripture warranted a central missionary organization, hardened into a permanent breach when Northerners declared that they would not appoint any missionary who was a slaveholder. Since the Civil War, the racial issue has become less important; most Southern Baptists remain segregationists, and American Baptists have probably done less for integration than any other major Northern Protestant church. The main barriers to union are matters of church practice that grew up during the schism...
...Central's President Alfred Perlman denounced the Administration's stand as "impractical and unrealistic." The final decision about the merger is still up to the independent ICC, but the Administration will probably be able to make its stand stick. Before year's end President Kennedy will appoint two new ICC members, thus gaining a majority of supporters on the eleven-man commission before the Pennsy-Central proposal is put to a vote...