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...chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look as if the old man might become a mere figurehead. Last week A. B. C. announced that the 76-year-old tycoon had resigned the presidency, remaining only as a director. In his place, not as president but as general manager, the company put Clarence Leich, part owner of two A. B. C. stations in Evansville, Ind. To a newshawk...
Generalissimo Franco this week paid a return call by air on General Mola at Burgos where both appeared on a balcony with the snowy-bearded, inconsequential figurehead of the Revolution, Provisional President Miguel Cabanellas, later prayed in the Cathedral at the shrine of heroic El Cid, Eleventh Century Savior of Spain. Said Mola: "We do not want Spain split by class hatreds. We will stop exploitation of the workers who today are suffering misery born of discontent and stockmarket manipulation. Spain's national economy was ruined by greed...
...prow of the Nahlin is an Indian totem pole base from which sprouts as a figurehead an Indian chief with.flowing headdress, peering ahead. On final orders from the Admiralty, the Nahlin nosed this week into the minute Balkan port of Sibenik, between Zara and Split, there picked up King Edward & Friends...
...racket, with poor deluded oldsters as its victims, such charges simply made most observers believe that good, grey Dr. Townsend was being used as a front by sharpers who had swarmed into his Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. First hint that Dr. Townsend was more than a simple, pious figurehead came last March when shrewd young Robert Earl Clements, cofounder, national secretary and working boss of Old Age Revolving Pensions, suddenly resigned from the organization on the eve of his appearance before a special House investigating committee (TIME, April 6). It was then revealed that Dr. Townsend had been made...
...right across Washington's 9th Street from the Federation Building. He had the backing of No. 2 Federation Leader John Lewis. "Official" presidency of the Building Trades Department, set up by the "triple alliance" and sponsored by William Green and most of the executive council, went to a figurehead from the carpenters' union, James William Williams. Last week Plasterer McDonough brought the old fight to a crisis when he appeared at the Atlantic City convention, demanded a seat in the name of his rumpsters. Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that...