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Situation Normal. One day last week, Sewell Avery called a three-man quorum of his executive committee without telling President Ball about his plans. In the office next day, Stu Ball got the shock of a lifetime. In strode Controller Edmund A. Krider, 40, with the word that Ball was out as president and that Krider was in. Sewell Avery let it be known that so far as he was concerned. Lawyer Ball had never got "comfortable" in his retailing job. But Ward employees gossiped that Stu Ball had simply become a mite too independent for the boss...
...President by June 23). Rhee invited some moderates among the opposition to a party at a hot springs resort near Pusan, to talk over ways & means of compromising their difficulties. After the party, 37 of them were driven to the Assembly hall and furnished a silent, glum quorum while the 60-man pro-Rhee minority voted unanimously for their boss...
...supposed to elect a new President for a four-year term beginning next month. But with eleven Assemblymen in jail, others under constant police threat and the capital at Pusan under martial law (in defiance of an Assembly vote), Rhee's opponents boycotted the Assembly. Without a legal quorum, the Assembly voted, 60-to-0 with 37 abstentions, to keep Rhee in office until a new President is elected. Lacking a quorum the move was hardly legal, but it seemed nevertheless to leave Strongman Syngman in the saddle...
...Sanctuary. But Rhee had other schemes. He ordered his 52 followers in the 183-member Assembly to boycott sessions to prevent a quorum. His police grabbed eleven anti-Rhee Assemblymen, locked them up in a dilapidated house in a Pusan slum, and tried, unsuccessfully, to get 15 more anti-Rhee parliamentarians to come in for "questioning." Scared opposition Assemblymen huddled in the sanctuary of their barnlike meeting hall, sleeping on bedrolls and benches...
...chairman cleared his throat loudly. "I'm gonna read the new constitution, so we can pass it. Its practically the same as the old constitution, except for three changes. One, we'll only need fifth instead of a fourth of the membership for a quorum and two, we'll only have five instead of eleven executives. That way, it'll be easier to transact business. The third change is a provision for impeaching an officer who commits an act detrimental to the club...