Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound in the matter all week)-could meet as the Security Council, then appoint a special heads-of-state committee to talk informally in Secretary General Hammarskjold's office...
Nine Brothers. The amateur editor had picked a formidable foe. Tied to the state organization of Senator Harry Byrd, the Kellam machine was formed by nine brothers, headed by Sidney Kellam, longtime county treasurer, and Floyd Kellam, circuit judge in the area, with the power to appoint various commissions...
...custom bars flying 48-star flags or even 13-star flags. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson gave the U.S. Navy responsibility for planning changes in flag design. President Eisenhower will probably follow Wilson's executive order, hand the problem to the Navy, which in turn may appoint a design commission...
...Vice President Robert T. Furman Jr. But Previews has made its reputation peddling white elephants and exotic properties. For $300,000 Tysen will sell a half share in an Irish distillery, for $182,000 the title to the Windward Island of Mustique, which Previews claims includes the right to appoint one's own parliament...
...foreign currency holdings. "That law," explained Pinay blandly, "has never been enforced anyway." De Gaulle himself was hard at work on constitutional reform. Some details gradually leaked out. Upon a nation with an ingrained distrust of strong government, the general hoped to impose a President who could not only appoint Premiers without parliamentary approval but would also be empowered to dissolve Parliament at will. To balance still more the power of the popularly elected National Assembly, De Gaulle would like to establish a strong Senate whose members would include representatives of France's local governments and overseas territories, plus...