Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peculiar plight he was in last week, Ralph Evinrude had only one explanation: "The boom was lowered." Evinrude, president of Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co. (Evinrude, Johnson & Elto motors), had gone to what seemed a routine directors' meeting to elect four new members to the board, increasing it to nine. "That's all I thought we were going to do," he said. But, no sooner were the new members elected with the help of Evinrude's votes, than the board, by a vote of 6-3, fired President Evinrude. Installed in his place was J. G. Rayniak, executive...
Deaf Ear. In Kansas City, Mo., after trustees sought an injunction barring the Rev. Fred Bruffett from the Gospel Tabernacle on the charge that he and friends had broken in to re-elect him minister, Bruffett huffed: "I have refused to accept a call from the Gospel Tabernacle...
...Force aide is an old acquaintance of Ike's: Major William G. Draper, 32, wartime transport pilot who in early 1951 was assigned as personal pilot to the SHAPE commander. At Ike's request, Draper was summoned from Europe in December to fly the President-elect and his party to Korea. In his new job, Draper will double as pilot of the presidential DC-6, the Independence...
Many pundits believe that the U.S. takes too long to nominate and elect a new President. Nobody could make that charge against Communist Yugoslavia, a dictatorship which is trying harder & harder to assume democratic trappings. One day last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were...
...formed to petition for the removal an economics professor at the California institute of Technology and the wife of the dean of the University of Southern California's School of Religion. The two are the only board members whose terms run past June when the conservative clement hopes to elect a completely new board...