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...executive council, which has still to appoint three more members from the class, will act as liaison between the group and the other officers. These three, plus the full Executive Council, will help the other officers in arranging future class functions...
When he was campaigning for President, Dwight Eisenhower was asked whether he would appoint Negroes to important positions in the Government. He said he would, whenever he found a man qualified for the job available. Last week he found a man eminently qualified, and made him the first Negro ever appointed to a sub-Cabinet position in the U.S. The appointee: Chicago Attorney J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins, 60, who will be Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs, representing the U.S. at international labor conferences...
...that very moment Egypt's real government−the young, twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council−was holding an emergency session to decide Naguib's fate. Three days before he had delivered an ultimatum: either the R.C.C. would give him the right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...
...appoint a committee to study school costs, as you stated. The committee (School Survey Commission) was appointed by the Legislative Council, and it recommended, among other things, that teachers be paid on a merit basis and that all school districts be subject to the regulations of the State Textbook Commission. You imply that I brought these matters before the Legislature as outlandish proposals...
...modern New Deal should attack. Slums have continued their spread and decay. The health of those millions who cannot really afford voluntary programs is getting worse. The teacher shortage mounts everywhere. In the face of these problems, the President has done no more than wrinkle up his forehead, appoint a study commission (all have been studied for years) and mouth lofty, empty statements of concern over the "human needs" of his people...