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...changeover from Adenauer, a staunch Roman Catholic, to Erhard, a Protestant, will upset West Germany's Konfessionsarithmetik, the juggling of top jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics, the job in which he himself won national acclaim as Wirtschaftswunderonkel (Uncle Boom), Erhard wants his longtime No. 2 man, able Ludger Westrick, despite demands from the party that the coveted post should go to a politician rather than a civil servant...
When he heard of Lytton's notion, Ed Day, himself a sometime Californian, said: "I am confident that the President will not appoint a man whose main qualifications are political manipulation and power plays. I am sure the President wants a continuation of the emphasis on better mail service rather than boss politics in the Post Office Department." Lytton's gibes did not bother Big Daddy a bit, but Day's did. After all, Unruh had recommended Day to the President for the Postmaster General's office in the first place...
First is a transfer of state administrative officers to the quasi-judicial category, a step that would permit the governor to appoint all his administrative officers. Greenwald said the major fault with the present system is that the governor does not have the time to battle with each antagonistic administrative head. As an example, he pointed out that if Gov. Peabody wanted to remove a powerful official of the turnpike authority it would take practically his entire two-year term...
Negotiations began in November 1959, bogged down in a year of bickering and mutual charges of failure to bargain in good faith. Toward the end of 1960, both parties asked President Eisenhower to appoint a commission to study the dispute. Ike created the Rifkind Commission, headed by onetime Federal Judge Simon Rifkind. After 14 months of hearings and on-the-rails investigations, the commission issued a report recommending extensive revisions in work rules and wage-base formulas...
...have enough bodies to go around if people get injured every time a controversial bill comes up," said Yu-taro Takeyama, head of the government party's strategy committee. "We will just have to appoint stronger men to committee chairmanships, men who won't get put out of action every time the going gets rough...