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...proxy-fight tactics, e.g., showcasing baseball players and football coaches, making extravagant promises of dividends, etc. "Big Fat Lie." In brokerage houses, the report persisted that Avery had got the proxies of investment trusts and other large stockholders on his promise to step down from the company's chairmanship after he wins the fight, and turn Ward's over to new, outside management. But Avery's closest backers denied the buzzing rumor. Said one: "Personally, I don't think he's ever going to resign." As the showdown at Ward's annual meeting neared...
...McKinstry will also become Chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences and of the Department of Geology and Geography; Professor J. Curry Street will be the new Chairman of the Department of Physics effective Feb. 1, 1956; and Walter J. Bate '39, associate professor of English, will assume the chairmanship of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature...
Question: Why Not? Until George Craig came along in 1952, Bill Jenner was the kingpin in the Indiana Republican Party for nearly eight years. To get and hold control, Jenner had spent more than 20 years shouting and shoving his way upward, through the state senate, into the state chairmanship of his party and on to the U.S. Senate. Then Craig burst upon the Jenner forces as a past national commander (1949-50) of the American Legion, and slipped past the old G.O.P. powers to win the Republican nomination for governor. Elected in a landslide...
...Wilfrid Garrett, the Anglican layman (a retired colonel) under whose chairmanship the report had been prepared, opened the debate with a defense of the report against charges of "Machiavellian plotting or external influence." He bluntly accused Dr. Frank Buchman's M.R.A. of "political-pressure-group tactics." Said the Bishop of Colchester: In addition to its "Four Absolutes" of honesty, love, purity, and unselfishness, M.R.A. was trying to add a fifth-"absolute approval or absolute praise [of its work] . . . That in all seriousness," said the bishop, "is the root of all the trouble caused by this report." Top M.R.A. supporter...
...half year interim between Sperry's retirement and Buttrick's appointment, and the installment of a new president, however, created doubt as to whether Buck's plans would be fulfilled. PBH leaders also were puzzled when the Overseers failed to name Buttrick to the PBH chairmanship at the time of his appointment this fall to head the Board of Preachers...