Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressed was President-elect Franklin Roosevelt that he decided, even before his inauguration in 1933, to appoint Virginia's Senator Claude A. Swanson as Secretary of the Navy so that Harry Byrd could fill his unexpired term. Though a fervent New Dealer at the time, Byrd was soon disenchanted by F.D.R.'s fiscal policies, principally his failure to make good on a campaign promise to cut federal spending by 25%. Years later, when the U.S. budget had mushroomed to 25 times its pre-Roosevelt size, Senator Byrd noted wryly: "I campaigned for the New Deal platform...
After nearly six hours of discussion last night, the club's executive committee apparently postponed a decision on whether to take the matter to court. In the meantime, YD president Lawrence S. Seidman '68 said he would appoint a committee to speak with the school officials "as soon as possible...
...honors candidates have the opportunity to work in a research laboratory. The Department should appoint a faculty member to advise students where to look for research sponsors...
...potato into small French fried-sized pieces. Under the Senate motion, Congress would order the machinists to return to their jobs with the struck airlines (TWA, United, Eastern, National and Northwest) for a 30-day period. During that time, President Johnson would be given authority to appoint a special mediation board to work out the dispute; the order creating the board would also extend the back-to-work period another 60 days. If the board was unsuccessful in settling the dispute, the President could still keep the union on the job for 90 more days while other steps were tried...
Projects like these cold not be undertaken without a tract of unspoiled land under University ownership. The wildlife center not only provides the laboratory, but it will also lure other accomplished biologists to Harvard. There are many people Harvard would like to appoint to the Faculty, Mayr explained, who have not been interested because "we didn't have the facilities for their work...