Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments for a formal relationship between Afro and the DuBois Institute are persuasive, and the ongoing debate on the matter continues to be an important one. Bok's failure to appoint Guinier to the Committee that will oversee DuBois's development is an official attempt to stifle that debate and to make its resolution a foregone conclusion...
JUDGE BRUCE MCMARION WRIGHT was appointed to the New York City Criminal Court bench by Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970. According to Wright, city officials were looking around for a black lawyer to appoint to a judgeship and somebody probably said, "Well, how about this Bruce Wright, he should be all right. He doesn't have a big Afro, he has a law office on Park Avenue, and he went to Yale Law School." "I guess I sort of surprised them," Wright says, smiling...
...COMMISSION. Ford could appoint a commission to lay bare the full Watergate story, much as the Warren Commission (of which Ford was a member) studied the assassination of President Kennedy. From Congress, the commission could obtain subpoena power to compel Nixon and his former associates to testify and surrender all of the evidence in their possession. Congress could also give the commission authority to grant witnesses immunity from prosecution so that Nixon's former aides, like himself, could not refuse to testify on the basis of constitutional rights against selfincrimination...
Congress could appoint a special committee, reactivate the Senate Watergate Committee or give an existing committee the authority to go after the remaining evidence to write a definitive history of Watergate. Such a congressional inquiry has already been discussed by several Democratic Senators, among them Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois...
...President Bok's first actions after students left Cambridge for the summer was to appoint new masters for Currier House. Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, associate professor of the History of Science, is now master, and her husband Paul Rosenkrantz, a Boston psychologist unaffiliated with Harvard, is co-master...