Word: appoints
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chatted for a moment, then said, "You know, I told you I don't want to appoint you to the Supreme Court." Frankfurter said yes, he remembered that; Roosevelt went on talking, repeating at least twice more that he did not want to appoint Frankfurter to the court. Finally, F.D.R. got to the point. "But wherever I turn," he said, "and to whomever I talk that matters to me, I am made to realize that you're the only person fit to succeed Holmes and Cardozo." And so, Roosevelt said, he was going to appoint Frankfurter...
Admiration in Limbo. All this has gone over so well that Griffin has gone on to declare for general piety in state government. Says he: "We are going to put honesty, integrity and morality in the government of Georgia. You can depend upon it that I shall appoint to public office men of unquestioned honesty and integrity ... I made some mistakes in my appointments before, but I will not make the same mistakes the second time. Truman had his Harry Vaughan, Eisenhower had his Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine, Kennedy has his Billie Sol Estes, and I had some myself...
However, the Corporation has decided only to appoint a civil defense officer for the University who would make more detailed studies of the complex problems involved. It did not specifically endorse any of the Civil Defense Study Committee's other recommendations, but directed the CD officer to make his plans "in line with" these proposals...
...decisions must be made quickly. Above all, Franklin L. Ford will have to deal with departments, and departments are singularly demanding. They need snap approvals or vetoes of funds for special projects, suggestions on revising teaching loads of junior Faculty and graduate students, permission to appoint men to replace professors on sabbatical...
...Roman Catholic Church, the Pope has all but complete authority to appoint any priest to the rank of bishop,* and the Catholics in the diocese must accept the appointed bishop's ecclesiastical authority. Last week Jesuit Theologian John Walsh suggested that the upcoming Second Vatican Council might well think about letting laymen have a hand in choosing their spiritual chiefs. Speaking at Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to a group of lay Catholics, Father Walsh pointed out that the laity had some hand in electing bishops for the first 1,000 years of the church...