Word: appoints
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Lincoin Gordon '34, William Ziegier Professor of International Relations, is scheduled to become United States Ambassador to Braxil, according to a story in the New York Times yesterday. He will succeed John M. Cabot '23, whom President Kennedy plans to appoint as Ambassador to the Organization of American States, the Times article stated...
...Both Houses approved a Senate-House conference version of a bill empowering the President to appoint 73 new federal judges-which will greatly reduce the backlog of court cases, greatly increase Jack Kennedy's patronage powers...
...judicial office becomes a public grant, it attracts those who seek a political plum rather than those who aspire to the heights of the legal profession." Ohio's William McCulloch noted that the 70 new judgeships, plus 19 vacancies, add up to 89 judges whom President Kennedy could appoint in his early months in office-more than Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman had appointed in their first four years...
...know," said Nik thoughtfully, "perhaps I ought to appoint some Smolensk men. The way things are now, half the government goes off to drown their sorrows every time Novogoro loses, and they're totally unfit for work the next morning...
...Swiss government cherishes its neutrality as a Saint Bernard guards its brandy cask. Last week, after scratching noisily and growling discreetly, the Swiss finally got across the point that they really did not want President Kennedy to appoint his old Palm Beach neighbor and friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss...