Word: reappoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move" against the anti-New Deal oldsters on the Supreme Court-a fight in which "I hope to be able to take part." With an air of conscious righteousness, he records a piece of White House scuttlebutt: F.D.R. is about to sack more than half his Cabinet,* but will reappoint Honest Harold...
...Gunderson when Gunderson was RFC director in charge of the Carthage Hydrocol loan. He called on RFC's new boss, Stuart Symington, to talk about a delay on the payments. And in October 1950, after Gunderson got the news that the President wasn't going to reappoint him to RFC, Gabrielson tried unsuccessfully to get him a job as president of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Answer. Eccles asked the then Attorney General, Tom Clark, to prosecute Transamerica as a monopoly, but got no where. So Eccles decided that FRB should do so. In November 1947 FRB ordered an anti-trust investigation. The President declined to reappoint Eccles as FRB chairman two months later. Writes Eccles: "The principal pressure that shaped the President's decision came . .. from within the inner citadel of the Giannini banking interests . . . Those who were responsible ... no doubt expected that I would resign . . . and the way would be cleared thereafter for continuous expansion...
...years as chief investigator for the state's attorney, Tubbo had never jugged an important gangster. Chicago's Crime Commission had asked two state's attorneys not to reappoint him, but Tubbo had hung on to the job. He boasted a personal fortune, not very satisfactorily accounted for, of $300,000. After ex-Policeman William Drury and Lawyer Marvin Bas were murdered a month ago (TIME, Oct. 9), it developed that they were about to unload some dirt on Tubbo before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime...