Word: reappoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according to the Constitution. One of Ramos' first official acts was to reappoint Lott as War Minister. The following morning, ex-President Luz sent President Ramos a radio message that he had decided to go along with Congress' decision and return...
NLRB is due for a change at the top. Chairman Guy Farmer, a middle-of-the-roader in labor-management controversies, wants to return to his Washington law practice, has asked the White House not to reappoint him when his term expires...
...withdrawn after protests that he was biased against small and nonscheduled lines. The offer was then made to Rizley, a small-town (Guymon, Okla., pop. 4,718) lawyer and ex-state senator, though he had had little experience in airline matters. The airline industry had wanted Eisenhower to reappoint Ryan. But when his term expired last Dec. 31, the White House kept him in the dark about reappointment, gave him no reason why it decided against him. Eisenhower has not even sent him a letter of thanks for his years of service...
Guided by Lawyer Joseph Alioto, Mary Ryan and five other prominent teachers wrote to Mayor Elmer Robinson urging him to reappoint Chairman Charles Foehn of the Board of Education, the only member to vote against the political gag. Then, just to make sure that their insubordination would be noticed, they wrote letters in favor of various candidates to the city health system and the city retirement system boards. Thus defied, the Board of Education faced a dilemma. Should it risk firing six of the city's top teachers? Or should it simply try to overlook the whole affair...
...people said yes, by a landslide. On the basis of nearly final returns, the Democrats won 508 out of 541 seats. Celal Bayar would undoubtedly be chosen President, and would undoubtedly reappoint his strongman Premier Adnan Menderes, who is a first-class orator, a wily politician, and a millionaire. For the U.S., the result-though it assured a comforting continuity-was less important than the resounding demonstration of Turkish democracy at work...