Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unnecessary office lights, refuses to trade in his 1950 city Cadillac, and won't even use it in his campaign rounds. He is the most powerful big-city mayor in the U.S., has the say-so over almost 7,000 municipal jobs, keeps tight rein on a nine-man city council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence...
...nine fraternity presidents who have been asked to attend this meeting will learn then whether or not their fraternities go on social probation. Dartmouth fraternities on social probation are forbidden to have drinking or women in the houses...
...forces of Millionaire Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's biggest (5%) and unhappiest stockholder. By 3,449,446 ballots to 519,435, shareholders gave President Joseph R. Vogel a solid grip on his board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats (including four recent resignations). The tenth seat fell to the management's critics, who put all their cumulative votes behind Veteran Movie Executive Sam Briskin, 60, onetime production chief for Columbia and RKO. Final count: 13 directors for Vogel...
...named executive vice president when President Moulder took over. Jenks, who is also slated to succeed Chairman and Chief Executive John McCaffrey, now past retirement age, faces the task of shoring up International Harvester, whose net income dropped $3,000,000 to $31,347,000 in the first nine months...
Republican party headquarters in Ankara claimed a lead in nine provinces, including populous Ankara, Istanbul and Adana. But Menderes and his Democrats said the Premier's party was well in front...