Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief Executive has ever had more judicial posts to fill at one time than Non-Lawyer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Deaths, vacancies and recess appointments that required resubmission to the Senate gave him 33 jobs to fill for a start. Last May the Democratic Congress, having delayed for more than a year with partisan forethought, passed a bill providing for 73 desperately needed new District and Appellate Court judgeships. In all, Kennedy now has the power to appoint more than one-fourth of the federal bench. Since judges are appointed for life, John Kennedy's choices will have a powerful...
...beyond a dispute about drunken drivers. As a veteran California assemblyman and state senator. McCarthy is a powerful Democrat whose ambitions probably do not stop short of the Governor's mansion. Brown long ago promised McCarthy the job of state attorney general -just as soon as he could appoint the incumbent. Stanley Mosk. to the California supreme court. But, as usual, Brown dithered, reconsidered-and backed away from his promise. McCarthy's reaction was his party-splitting resignation...
Help from Outside. If the Kennedy Administration renounces the Reciprocal Trade Act, it must find something better that it can put through a reluctant Congress. President Kennedy is expected shortly to appoint as his foreign-trade adlviser Howard C. Petersen, 51, vice chairman of the free-trading Committee for Economic Development and president of Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust...
...country lawyer, Fanfani learned his political arts hopping from ministry to ministry under the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, acquired such a grip on the Christian Democratic Party reins that De Gasperi once complained: "If I appoint him Minister of Industry, I am sure that some day, on opening the door to my office, I'll find him sitting at my desk." Fanfani did just that, but only after De Gasperi was ailing and in semiretirement. Fanfani's first premiership lasted only eleven days in 1954, his second for a frustrating 210 days that ended in 1959 when...
...noted that the seminar was unable to concentrate on any specific country or project and indicated that he hoped this problem could be alleviated in the seminar tentatively planned for next fall. He also suggested that the Peace Corps appoint a separate administrator outside of Washington to direct each of its projects...