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Today, a small, bespectacled, inconspicuous man, he sits in a dingy office in a dingy building, hiding behind the union's figurehead president, Will Lawther. He lives quietly in suburban Kenton. His power grows. He has distributed Communists in key positions throughout his union, is now trying hard to pull members from Ernie Bevin's Transport and General Workers into his own union...
Next day, by just about the same ratio, they voted back into office U.E.'s Big Three: waspish Albert Fitzgerald, no Red himself, as U.E.'s figurehead president; Communist-wired James J. Matles and Julius Emspak, U.E.'s real bosses, as top organizer and secretary-treasurer...
...years, continued chaos resolved itself into a government shakeup, and mild, aristocratic General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona became President. This besashed and epauletted figurehead (still President in name today) made Salazar Minister of Finance, with extraordinary powers, which he used to make himself dictator of the nation...
...Assembly will choose both the President and Premier of the Republic. The President will be even more a figurehead than in the Third Republic. Cracked one commentator: his chief duty will be to "inaugurate fairs and kindergartens...
...Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...