Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man." Of the late A.F.L. President William Green he said: "I have done a lot of exploring of Bill Green's mind, and I give you my word there is nothing there." Said Harry Truman of John L. Lewis: "I wouldn't appoint him dogcatcher...
...gonna get beat!" "By whom?" asked Matthews. Replied Truman: "Me!" Truman denied that he had ever said any such thing. ¶ In Milwaukee, Averell Harriman, New York's ex-governor and onetime (1956) presidential hopeful, startled a group of local Democratic politicos with an announcement: "If I could appoint the next President, I would pick Humphrey." The partisans of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey were delighted (although Harriman can sway few of New York's 114 convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman...
Seniors can certainly consult their tutors, where the tutor's field of study and knowledge of other schools' departments makes such consultation appropriate. Yet it would seem quite desirable for the departments to organize such consultations and perhaps to appoint a few knowledgeable members of the Faculty to carry them on in each field. These Faculty members would not be doing distasteful administrative and "guidance placement" work, but rather would be engaged in presumably interesting "shop talk" with students who are potential scholars in their own field...
...Despite the strike's worsening effects, chances for a settlement last week seemed more remote than ever. The steelworkers accepted, but the steel companies turned down, an offer by President Eisenhower to appoint a non-Government fact-finding committee. To aid workers, the U.A.W. sent $1,000,000, and at the biennial A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in San Francisco the federation urged its 13 million members to give an hour's pay each month to aid the striking steelworkers. If all workers contributed, the strike fund would be an estimated $1,000,000 a day, largest in labor history...
Since he keeps the power to appoint the Assembly, Nasser's National Union only slightly modifies his present dictatorship. But he evidently intends that the local councils will take over some responsibility in municipal affairs, which have been absolutely controlled by the central government from the days of Ottoman Turkish rule. Says one Western diplomat: "The National Union is the first 5% installment on democracy...