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Lyndon Johnson favors a group like the Hoover Commission, one third appointed by the President, the rest by Congress. House Democrats, however, fear the probable big-business domination of such a group. Congress should therefore appoint the total membership of a more able and representative investigatory group than it can furnish from its own members...
Judson T. Shaplin '42; Associate Dean of the School of Education, and a colleague, Mrs. George W. Ogden, Jr., are fighting the five other members of the city's School Committee in their efforts to appoint and promote 17 teachers to vacant or newly-created posts in the school system. Shaplin claims that the appointments were made illegally, without the advice of the Superintendent of Schools, without merit examinations, and without considering the teachers' qualifications...
...Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John Marshall Harlan, Democrat William J. Brennan Jr. Of the F.D.R. holdovers, Justice Black is now 70, Justice Frankfurter 74. Only hard clues as to whom Ike might choose to replace Reed: 1) Ike prefers to appoint lawyers with experience on the bench rather than deserving politicians, and 2) he might heed the quaint geographic fact that no Supreme Court Justice now hails from anywhere between Cleveland (Burton) and Puget Sound (Douglas...
Ever since his visits to Moscow and Peking last fall, Sukarno has been touting the idea of "guided democracy." Just what "guided democracy" is, Sukarno has never made entirely clear. He provided a broad clue fortnight ago, however, when he announced that he was planning to appoint a presidential advisory council which, according to palace aides, would have final say over all acts of Parliament and, presumably, the Cabinet. "In no way," smiled Sukarno, "will this be a dictatorship...
...overall financial system (TIME, Jan. 21) ran into a strictly partisan ambush in Congress last week. By a vote of 16 Democrats to twelve Republicans, the House Banking and Currency Committee, with full covering fire from Speaker Sam Rayburn, rejected the President's plea for permission to appoint nine U.S. financial leaders to lead the study, instead decided to do the job itself. The chairman of the investigating committee would undoubtedly be Democrat Wright Patman. Said Speaker Rayburn: "If there is going to be an investigation, Congress ought...