Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan to expand the Council was defeated, 8 to 4, after parliamentary entanglement. Expansion was considered unnecessary because of the Council's power to appoint additional members...
Samuel Sears, last year's head of the Bar, agreed that the judge is "wonderful," but felt that the President should appoint "someone who will stick," and that Hand "should not even be considered...
Bittker called Hastie "a good choice," while Rodell admitted that he "would be better than some." Corbin maintained, however, that "the fact that he is black is not a reason to appoint him," and added that if Hastie were selected, "he would be put on as a political measure...
Braucher and Freund suggested that President Eisenhower appoint Hand or Hastie to the vacancy on the bench which will be created by the retirement of Sherman Minto next month. The two professors felt sure Hand could get the retired Congressional approval at the next session, which will start in January...
...opening into the bladder with forceps, finally turned to his unanesthetized patient a few minutes before he died and complained petulantly that he could not imagine how he had failed. The Lancet was fined a token ?100 for printing that story, but had the satisfaction of seeing Parliament appoint a commission to study monopolistic practices in medicine...