Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Cabinet members averaged 47, four years older than the President-elect himself. There were six Protestants, two Jews, one Roman Catholic and one Mormon, or-to put it another way-three Governors, two businessmen, two lawyers, two State Department hands and a Congressman. Some critics thought that, as individuals, they were an unspectacular lot, and wondered whether Kennedy had planned it that way. But they were indisputably impressive in total and they added up to an impression of the kind of "vigah" that Kennedy had long promised "to get America moving again...
Jack Kennedy's most delicate problem was what to do with the liberals he had courted assiduously and yet-because of the closeness of his election-did not want to put in top posts. Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams had his taste buds all set for a Cabinet job and was politically deserving, having "pledged" Michigan's 51 votes at a crucial hour before the Democratic Convention. Kennedy skillfully and carefully built up the importance of the post of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, announced it early with heavy fanfare, and Soapy gracefully accepted. Liberal Adlai...
Others failed to meet the confrontation test. Fred V. Heinkel, head of the Missouri Farmers Association, was a leading contender for Agriculture Secretary until he arrived in Georgetown. But he had no answers to several key questions put to him by Kennedy. Jack was astounded and, to double-check, had Bobby question Heinkel alone. When Heinkel left, late in the afternoon, he was no longer in the running. Jack settled on Minnesota's defeated Governor Orville Freeman, a Marine combat veteran, for Agriculture...
Secondly, the description given of the financing is incomplete and inaccurate. The Ford Foundation at no time "offered to put up the entire sum needed" nor did we ever approach them seriously for money--they assisted us by advising us about other foundations. Had the author of your article opened the conference program he would have seen the names of four smaller foundations which did donate to 20th Century Week. The success of the fund raising effort was due almost solely to the energy and determination of the Finance Chairman, John Simmons...
...convention answer that this suspicion of the electorate is inconsistent with democratic government; but they add that even if the convention ran wild, people would have a year to cool off and refuse to ratify bad suggestions in the referendum. As a further protection, the bill to put the convention to a referendum bars the body from discussing the Declaration of Rights, but the courts have not yet said that this limitation is constitutional...