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...Comparative Anatomy. Dr. Deane originally learned of Dr. Schreider's appointment last November, and brought the matter to the attention of Dr. Alexander, who had acted as a civilian consultant to the Allies at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. Dr. Wislocki made the original request for Dr. Schreiber's ouster to Dr. George E. Armstrong, Surgeon General of the Air Force...
Expert on England, David E. Owen, professor of History, stated that at present there was "a temporary lull which may or may not produce later fireworks." The ouster of the Wafdist group and subsequent appointment of the new independent cabinet was necessitated by the emergency conditions, according to Owen. He was unsure whether or not Maher Pasha's government would meet with any success. "It must first," he said, "get a working agreement during the present breathing spell...
Attention was first drawn to the restrictive clause by a Student Council investigation two years ago. Last September's convention offered the first opportunity for changing the organization's laws. Several of the Eastern chapters, including that of the University of Connecticut, faced ouster by their college authorities in the event the clause were not removed...
...fought in warlords' armies, became a Communist Party member in 1926. After Chiang Kai-shek's bloody 1927 ouster of the Communists from the Kuomintang, Liu made his way to Moscow, where he studied guerrilla tactics and Far Eastern politics at the Red Army Military Academy. When Russian troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi...
Many a paper tried ingenious ways to make stories seem exclusive. The Newark Evening News front-paged Reporter John O. Davies Jr.'s recital of "an interview two years ago" in which MacArthur "partially explained [to me] some of the reasons behind his sudden ouster at Washington early this morning." Manhattan's Daily News marveled at the "almost uncanny accuracy" with which the News's Astrologist Marion Drew, as long ago as December, had prophesied that "MacArthur would encounter strong criticism in March and April." But after all the dailies had had first crack at the story...