Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomats and their 16 dependents, life in Budapest is grey enough. They are often followed; their employees are often questioned and jailed. The Communist regime in Hungary is angered at the U.S. for steadfastly refusing to appoint a minister to the puppet regime, for trying to unseat Hungary's U.N. delegation following the 1956 revolt, and for giving continued asylum to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty in the U.S. legation in Budapest. Month ago the U.S. successfully led a fight to refuse to seat Hungarian delegates to an International Labor Organization meeting at Geneva. Last week the Reds' anger spilled...
...Emergency. Ike's letter was an answer to a letter from McDonald, who was so anxious to have the Administration take a hand in negotiations that he asked the President to appoint a fact-finding board to look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked...
...chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around to accepting self-government. Even today the emirs can appoint kadis (Moslem judges) with complete authority to fine, jail...
...rebuttal to Murphy came from Butler himself, who in his introduction said that it was "no crime for a Governor to appoint a Republican," and expressed hope that local Democrats would settle their differences before the 1960 campaign. Butler admitted that he had more than once voted for a Republican candidate "in the belief that the particular man was a better candidate...
...strong Catholic and I come from a strong Catholic family," responded Kennedy. "But I regret the fact that some people get the idea that the Catholic Church favors a church-state tie." Then, taking up a questionnaire formally delivered to him beforehand, he repeated again that he would not appoint an envoy to the Vatican. One bishop taxed him with the persecution of Protestants in Catholic Spain. "I deplore a loss of liberty under any circumstances," answered Kennedy. By now not sure what might lie in the bishops' minds, he felt it necessary to add, "I am opposed...