Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retaining the Council's right to appoint three additional members, if and when it sees fit, the new constitution provides for Freshman representation through two non-voting members, whose main duty will be as liaison between the Council and Union Committee...
...round out the job, George Allen also recommended that the President appoint lanky, hard-working John Duncan Goodloe III, RFC's general counsel, and one of RFC's top hands, as his successor. A Harvard law graduate and a veteran of 15 years in Government, Goodloe had topped his RFC career by drafting the Corporation's reorganization bill. That job was enough to convince George Allen that Goodloe should be his successor. And an Allen recommendation was still gilt-edge with Harry Truman; Goodloe...
...President will appoint the head of the Executive Yuan with consent of the Legislative Yuan. He will also appoint judges to the Judicial Yuan (a kind of Supreme Court) with consent of the Control Yuan. Like the President of the U.S., he will be commander in chief of all land, sea and air forces. He may promulgate laws when countersigned by the President of the Executive Yuan, and he will have power to conclude treaties, declare war, negotiate peace, declare martial law, and exercise emergency powers. The Legislative Yuan may review these acts within a month...
...alternatives to be presented at House meetings will be 1) the council shall be completely elective, though non-council members may be committee chairmen, or 2) the Council may by a two thirds vote appoint undergraduates to membership, providing such appointments shall not exceed five or some other figure yet to be stipulated...
Democrats and Republicans leaped to protest in unison. An anonymous Administration spokesman called the idea "utterly fantastic" (it would lose the Democrats the last remnants of federal patronage). Buzzed Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Wayne Morse: "Blind partisanship" (it would give a Democrat the power to appoint a Republican President...