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Cleveland is the largest of some 400 U. S. city-manager-plan cities. Next largest is Cincinnati where last week a determined effort was being planned by old-line Republican politicians to gain control of the city council at the November election, to restore politics to the city government, oust able City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill...
...Ashville, N.C., City College last fortnight Dean Henry Dexter Learned gave students, including girls, permission to smoke in the college building between classes. An outraged Board of Education planned to meet and oust Dr. Learned. A committee of parents and students planned to keep him in. The Dean calmly explained: "If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This is the biggest cigaret producing state in the Union...
...Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful rival and possibly Father Girard. Young Sister Elizabeth talks about sex right out in the open and vents a precocious materialism. She and her mother so belabor gentle Geraldine that she, cowed, consents to marry Chandler. But beforehand, with an abandon quite inconsistent with her chill softness...
Last week this same Mr. Loft was busily engaged in trying to keep, not a suit, but a job. He is president of Loft, Inc., candy chain which for more than 50 years has been a Loft property. Now a group of stockholders is attempting to oust the Loft family (Mr. Loft Sr. is cruising in the Mediterranean) and elect as two of the eleven directors Mr. Otis Emerson Dunham, president of Page & Shaw, Inc., and Mr. Edward T. Williams, vice president of Page & Shaw. At a stockholders' meeting last week (reminiscent of the late Rockefeller-Stewart and Childs...
...Commission is to consider how best to enforce the law, not whether it should be repealed. He said in answer to press questioners: "It [the Commission] is intended to cover the entire question of law enforcement and organization of justice." The President also announced that he would probably not oust many officeholders, probably only 20 or 30 all told...