Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke up against the questionnaire at a Cabinet meeting; he was supported by other officials, and the President took the matter under advisement. Then last week McGrath told a House subcommittee that he had not yet decided whether to answer the questionnaire addressed to him. Asked if he would appoint Morris now if he had the chance again, he bluntly replied: "I would...
...would like to return to foreign service, but feels that such an appointment is unlikely. Although his Supreme Court brief makes evident his antipathy to both the Nazi and Soviet systems, Billings reports that the State Department, at present under harrassment from certain members of the Senate, would probably hesitate to appoint a man with his background...
...carefully-phrased petitions, circulated among Watts' former and present students, did not directly attack the decision of the School not to re-appoint Watts, but urged both Professor Watts and the Administration to reconsider the more...
Last week the President angrily said that if McDonald were not approved, he would not appoint anyone else; he would run the RFC himself. Thus prodded, the House committee quickly finished its probe. At week's end, as Symington resigned his post, the committee cleared McDonald. There was no credible evidence, it said, "reflecting adversely upon [his] honesty and integrity." With that out of the way, it looked as if the Senate committee would approve McDonald this week...
...parish priest? ... It seems to me that Roman Catholics in the U.S. have been very quiet on this whole matter, and they have shown great forbearance in the face of the abuse and suspicions which have been directed towards them ever since President Truman made known his desire to appoint an ambassador...