Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able Edward John Noble, CAA's first chairman; 3) CAA's own internal checks and balances have resulted in continual quarrels and minor complaints vexing to the President. To make the Department of Commerce seem more attractive, the President last week announced that he expected to appoint CAA's present head, Robert Henry Hinckley, an Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
...reputation of being the best managed city in the country. It provides, in brief, for a city council of nine, to be elected by proportional representation. The council would elect one of its members mayor. He would be the official head of the city. In addition it would appoint a city manager, who, as administrative chief of the city, would carry out the council's policies and be responsible to it. Thus responsibility for city affairs would be concentrated in the council, which, elected by P. R., would be truly representative of the city's population...
Denying that freedom of speech was ever contemplated as his defense either by the College of the City of New York or the Harvard Corporation, Bertrand Russell pointed out in a letter to the CRIMSON that the issue in both cases is the right of a university to appoint its own teachers...
...past year Harvard has faced the charge of violation of free speech again and again. By appointing men, who have aroused general public resentment, to teach, Harvard can only encourage scholars to hide behind the free speech cry rather than to stand on their merits as good citizens when seeking appointment. To appoint Russell is to put a premium on moral eccentricity rather than scholarship. There are many able men, fully as able as Russell and much less biased, who could give these lectures. To appoint Russell under these conditions is to hire an ax-grinder and lose an educator...
...Note: The University has made clear that the issue is not freedom of speech, but the power of the Corporation to appoint as lecturers whatever scholars it chooses. Bertrand Russell was not chosen because Harvard wishes to give freedom of speech to "eccentric ideas" about domestic relations. He was selected because he is a foremost scholar in the field of logic. He is not to lecture on the relations between male and female but on the relations between logic and language...