Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Dulles considered ways to promote new collective action against the new Communist economic offensive. Before the session was over, the SEATO council had agreed to appoint an economic officer to speed work in that field, and had pledged not only to fight aggression and subversion but also to "press forward with national and international programs to raise standards of-living in the treaty area." This was less than some members of SEATO had hoped...
Urban Renewal has gotten no farther. The city had promised the Federal Government to hire an Urban Renewal Coordinator, appoint an Urban Renewal Authority, and set up an agency to enforce the Housing code, all by October 1955. It has thus far done nothing except put a token item in the budget for a Coodinator, and delay action. The city manager, like Diogenes, is looking for a man. The trouble is that he wants a good man to take a bad job, and like Diogenes, the problem is insoluble...
...rivals in the army and navy ended in June, 1951, when Pibul's army joined forces with the police of his ex-rival, General Phao Sriyanandh, to put down a naval revolt. A bloodless coup d'etat the following November was used as an excuse for Pibul to appoint 51 per cent of Thailand's single House...
...Joseph said unto Pharaoh . . . look out a man discreet and wise . . . and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine...
Keane's first official action was to appoint the nine other officers for next year's eight issues...