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...track down Nazi agents, liquidate the country's powerful Axis firms. But last week the board's general secretary, Dr. Carlos A. Adrogue, resigning in a huff, charged that Foreign Minister Juan Isaac Cooke and other high officials were anxious to hinder, not help, any move to oust the Nazis...
...didn't make mistakes in his strategy and leadership, and thank God we had a leader like General Eisenhower who knew General Patton's worth when he was being criticized for slapping a soldier. He didn't let public criticism oust a great...
Anything but That. In Detroit, a hotel sued to oust a paying guest because he had too many girl friends. When the housekeeper tried to testify as to what went on in his room, she fainted...
Died. Marshal Enrico Caviglia, 82, onetime Italian Minister of War (1919), Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...
Last week, less than a month after stormy Camillien Houde was elected mayor of Montreal, came a move to oust him from his $10,000-a-year job. One Léo Doré, identified only as a truck driver and obviously acting for someone else, filed a petition in superior court to have Mayor Houde's election annulled...