Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite his desire to appoint Fulbright, no one knew better than Kennedy that Fulbright has one great debit. One of the heaviest responsibilities of the new Secretary of State will be in dealing with restive African nations-and Fulbright, though no racist, is a political segregationist who remained conspicuously silent during the Little Rock school crisis in his home state...
Citizen Kane Feeling. Clansman Dean Martin began to put out word that President-elect Kennedy was going to appoint him "Secretary of Liquor." Sammy Davis Jr., a convert to Judaism, had other ambitions: "Sinatra will be Ambassador to Italy," he said. "I'm hoping for Jerusalem, but I'll be lucky if I get Kenya." Some of Hollywood's other post-mortems last week were turning into post toasties as many echoed the comment of Democratic Writer-Producer-Director Dore Schary: "I don't know who can stave off this rush of professional showmen into politics...
...addition, the handout suggested that President Pusey appoint a committee to study the abolition of NROTC at Harvard, since the Navy's program "contains by virtue of its very purpose a substantial amount of propaganda and is these fore a threat to the University's high standards of objective scholarship...
...George Mason, "as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man." The Constitutional Convention determined to put the choice in the hands of an elite, struck upon a system of electors that was a compromise between big and small states. Each state would "appoint" a number of electors equal to its total Congressmen and Senators. If no presidential candidate won a clear majority from the electors, the contest would go into the House of Representatives, where each state would have one vote in choosing a President-another concession to the smaller states...
Sourly. Seoul's daily Minkook Ilbo editorialized that the government might as well appoint students as "permanent advisers...