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...retaliation Meyner has attacked Forbes's attempted elevation of Lloyd Marsh to the Republican state chairmanship. He has called Marsh a man who "borrowed $25,000 for that party from Joe Bozzo, an admitted confidant of such racketeers as Joe Adonis and the late Willie Moretti." In defense, Forbes has simply said, "I turned to Mr. Marsh as a pro, who knew the business of practical politics...
...Change. After his personal success in the elections, Erhard is expected to stay on as Economics Minister. He would also like to take over Vice Chancellor Franz Blikher's chairmanship of the Cabinet's economic committee, which would enable him to gain overall direction of German economic policy. Up to now he has had to work in tandem with balky Finance Minister Schäffer, who has incurred Adenauer's displeasure by holding back rearmament funds and thus delaying Adenauer's plans for stepping up German participation in NATO. Inevitably there is talk that Erhard might...
...Romance Language Department will appoint a new professor of Italian literature before next year, retiring chairman Raimundo Lida said last night. The decision will probably be made some months after Wilbur M. Frohock, Professor of Romance languages and Literatures takes over the department chairmanship next month...
...claimed in court that more than half the delegates had been illegally chosen. Hoffa saw to it that the credentials committee, headed by Kansas City Teamster Roy Williams, scratched 139 of the more doubtful delegates, and stamped the rest approved. (Williams' reward for loyal service: promise of chairmanship of the Central States Conference.) This thumping pretense served only to prove Hoffa's confidence of victory. "Are you running scared?" asked a newsman. Snapped Jimmy in a steely voice: "I never run scared at nothin', and I don't intend to start at this late date...
...Community Chest drives, became trustee of the city's Institute of Fine Arts, a member of the executive committee of the Summer Opera Association, Harvard overseer, an adviser to the University of Cincinnati. In 1955 President Eisenhower tapped him for the biggest lay-educational assignment of all: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Ike was impressed by the way McElroy steered a conglomeration of free-wheeling individualists toward a hard-hitting, unified report which recommended that expenditures for education be doubled. When it came time to find a successor for Engine Charlie, Ike saw to it that...