Word: appointing
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...before the state house of representatives last week was a senate-approved bill empowering the Governor to appoint four members of each seven-man committee in some 40 categories of books. (The Governor already heads a state board that buys books chosen by the schools.) "Clean up our textbooks," urged Barnett. "Our children must be properly informed of the Southern and true American way of life...
...decided on a course of power and performance. Moving with sure control, they worked to get roadblocks out of the way of the substantial civil rights bill sent over from the House (TIME, April 4), a bill that notably strengthens Negro voting rights by authorizing federal courts to appoint voting referees. Among the tests met and bested...
...Celler-McCulloch civil rights bill was substantially the one that had been recommended by the Administration. In five key sections it provides that: On petition of disenfranchised citizens, U.S. district courts shall appoint voting referees (TIME, March 14), who will see to it that Negroes qualified under state laws get to cast a vote in federal, state and local elections...
Working from fragmentary records, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission ruefully estimated last September that in the South only one Negro out of every four of voting age was registered. To thwart systematic exclusion of eligible Negroes from voting lists, the commission proposed that, where investigation proved exclusion, the President appoint federal registrars to guarantee voting rights denied by local officials. Promptly denounced by Southerners, the proposal was coolly received by President Eisenhower and Attorney General William P. Rogers. One reason: the registrar plan, as a direct executive remedy, would frontally assault what remained of "states' rights...
...Washington last week, Attorney General Rogers moved to place protection of voting rights firmly "within the established judicial framework" by proposing an alternative to the registrar device. Rogers' plan: federal district courts would be authorized to appoint voting referees to certify qualified voters in federal, state and local elections who may have been deprived of their right to vote by local officials. Obvious advantages of the referee proposal: unlike the registrar plan that applied to federal elections only, it would apply to all elections; a referee need not stop at registration but would be able to follow a complaint...