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...book of charges, was guilty of putting Yugoslavia (and himself) ahead of the Soviet Union (and Joseph Stalin). The Cominform did not really expect Tito to recant; they had tried this for weeks without success. Now they were putting it up to his party comrades in Yugoslavia to oust him and to "raise from below a new internationalist leadership...
...Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding to the mosque by muleback, made the trip more comfortably in a blue seven...
British Labor promptly hit back. Arthur Deakin, Ernie Bevin's successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
...answers did not satisfy Ryan. He got permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to take the first move in a proxy fight in which he hoped to oust Sosthenes Behn. Ryan estimated that he, his family and his friends already had behind them over 1,000,000 shares of the 6,399,002 shares of l.T. & T. stock. Behn, who always has a weather eye out for squalls ahead, suddenly changed his tack. Last week he offered to talk things over with the Ryan group face to face...
...address their meeting. "'E's a Liverpool man," was all one pimply-faced steward could say about him. Others knew that Murphy had come down from Merseyside the day before, after having helped organize a wildcat strike whose aims were to tie up Liverpool and oust the rather tame leadership of the National Union of Seamen. '"E knows what we want," an oiler told a reporter...