Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal brought an upwelling of boos. But V.F.W. Commander in Chief Charles C. Rails of Seattle quickly shouted: "I appoint you a committee of one to extend the invitation." That afternoon Joe McCarthy was reached by telephone in Boise, Idaho, where Joe was winding up a western stump tour. Joe accepted on the spot, that night boarded an airliner for Manhattan...
...save the Communists, whom he fought uncompromisingly all the time). In his sprawling Demo-Christian Party there are some who favor land reform and some who resist it; some who support a balanced budget and others committed to heavy spending to help the unemployed. De Gasperi learned how to appoint one wing to office, make private promises to its rival, and deliver public speeches in which all could find comfort...
...Pentagonian always lives "by the book." Confronted with a problem, his instinct is to find a precedent (nothing makes a Pentagonian feel snugger than to curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials...
...Florida, a measure which would automatically oust most of the anti-Wagner trustees. But before Governor Fuller Warren got around to signing the bill, the legislator was persuaded to withdraw it. Then 15 trustees met at the college at Winter Park, reaffirmed their decision to drop Wagner and to appoint Art Professor Hugh F. McKean acting president in his place...
Actually, U.M.T. is far from a finished project. Congress approved it, but insisted on the right to look it over again before the plan starts. The bill sets up this labyrinthine process: 1) the President will appoint a National Security Training Commission of five members-three prominent civilians and two military officers; 2) within four months the commission will recommend to the Armed Services Committees of Congress a detailed U.M.T. plan approved by the Secretary of Defense; 3) no more than 45 days later the committees will pass on the bills; 4) after Congress adopts a specific plan and when...