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...vote was a setback for Kashani, but the power of the aged little fanatic has always been in the streets, rather than the Majlis. And though Mossadegh had won one more parliamentary triumph, his power is steadily being undermined by 1) the unpopularity of his attempt to oust the Shah, win control of the army and set up an unopposed dictatorship; 2) his failure to break the British blockade and sell crude oil to the outside world; 3) the attrition of the currency (the rial was 118 to the dollar last week, against 74 a year ago, 47 two years...
...shrewdly turning necessity into advantage, and defense into offense, had also made the most dramatic maneuver yet in their global peace offensive. One obvious intention: to make the prospect of German unity seem so real that the bulk of West Germany's 30 million voters this September will oust the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who opposes unification until West Germany is rearmed and allied to NATO...
...firing power was given to the Secretary of State seven years ago (chiefly to permit him to oust security risks) in an appropriations-bill rider. Three years ago it was extended to the Secretary of Commerce; the new bill proposed to include the Attorney General for the first time. Rooney and other Democrats argued that in 1953 the riders are unnecessary and dangerous because 1) all agency heads will have the power to fire security risks anyway, under the new Eisenhower loyalty and security program, and 2) the general power might be used to oust employees for patronage reasons. With...
...fight to keep control of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. (TIME, April 13), President Spyros Skouras last week easily bested Proxy Fighter Charles Green, who wanted to oust Skouras. At a special meeting in Wilmington, Del. to decide on voting rules, Fox stockholders voted almost 4 to i for a management proposal to eliminate cumulative voting for directors.* Green's defeat means that he now has no real chance of putting his men on the Fox board at the regular meeting next week...
...board to represent minority interests," provided that they were well-known businessmen. When Green presented a slate of names, Skouras said he had never heard of them, refused to seat them. Green also tried to make a deal with Zanuck, promising him the presidency if he would help to oust Skouras. Zanuck turned him down, said the suit could only be actuated by a desire of reprisal . . ." So Green squared off to try to get control of the company at the May 19 stockholders' meeting...