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Mute Deputies. The first vote was the crucial one-for the chairmanship of the Assembly. The SRs nominated Chernov; the Bolsheviks, Marya Skpiridonova. Chernov won, 244-151. Apparently, he had the pathetic hope that the Reds might be persuaded to moderation and compromise; his speech was couched in Socialist and international tones, as though attempting to placate the Bolsheviks and appealing for the unity that all Russia desperately wanted. The response was bloodthirsty. "Bullets are the only way!" screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, "We demand a dictatorship...
...contributed to the preconvention campaign of Cincinnatian Robert A. Taft, but supported Ike in the general election. As a Harvard overseer and an adviser to the University of Cincinnati, McElroy had long been a lay educational leader, and in 1954 President Eisenhower tapped him for a big educational assignment: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Before taking the job McElroy first pondered whether it would "be good for P. & G." Then he bluntly asked Ike: "Are you genuinely interested in this problem, or are you doing this for window dressing?" Ike liked the frankness, assured McElroy that...
...retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed (TIME, Dec. 16). Says Democrat Carlton, who keeps his sentiments on segregation largely to himself: "I will be sitting, in effect, as a judge and jury, and I want to pass honestly and fairly on every matter." Justice Reed's commission chairmanship went to Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University...
...loss on the second transaction alone topped $100,000. Some of the Central directors who bought shares to help Young have also lost heavily. But the biggest loss has been incurred by Alleghany Corp., the holding company which helped Young take over the Central. Under Young's chairmanship, Alleghany Corp. bought about 1,000,000 Central shares at an average cost of $31, much of it after the proxy battle. On this stock, Alleghany has a paper loss of some $16.5 million...
Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, pointed out that a group of professors under the chairmanship of Jerrold Zacharias, professor of Physics at M.I.T., has made a study of the problems involved in presenting physics to students at the secondary level. These professors, from both the University and M.I.T., might provide an excellent basis for the beginning of such a committee, he noted...