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...thickened, President Conant found himself spending less and less time in Cambridge, and unable to handle the inevitable minuscule probles of finance and faculty. Gone were the days when President Eliot could fill out the University's budget by hand. In 1945 Conant decided to appoint Buck "Provost of the University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." Since Conant likens each University department to a tub--"every tub will stand on its own bottom"--Buck has almost complete autonomy in an extensive domain that includes the Collage, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. libraries, and research...
During this year's campaign for governor of Illinois, Republican Candidate William G. Stratton promised to appoint the first Negro to the state cabinet. Last week Stratton paid up in heaping measure. He named an able Chicago Negro, Joseph Bibb, to one of the state's most sensitive and important posts, director of public safety...
...soggiest spots in the New Deal and Fair Deal Administrations was the fiscal area, where both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were prone to appoint professor-type economic theorists and ward-type politicians. Last week there were clear and specific indications of a solid change in attitude under the new Administration. They came as Dwight Eisenhower's New York headquarters announced the appointment of three men as top assistants to Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey. Flanking the new Secretary, who has demonstrated his own ability in the field of fiscal policy, will be three topflight working economists...
Under the new section, the Council shall have the right to appoint and dismiss any member of the Charities Committee. The chairman of the committee is required to submit a report three weeks before the drive, stating exactly how the drive will be conducted...
...appointment after another flashed out of Dwight Eisenhower's New York headquarters, there was scarcely a sound from Ohio, where Robert A. Taft was sitting out the interregnum. After the last Cabinet post was filled, Senator Taft had something to say. Having slept soundly on his indignation, he wrote out next morning a statement denouncing the appointment of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower...