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Guided by Lawyer Joseph Alioto, Mary Ryan and five other prominent teachers wrote to Mayor Elmer Robinson urging him to reappoint Chairman Charles Foehn of the Board of Education, the only member to vote against the political gag. Then, just to make sure that their insubordination would be noticed, they wrote letters in favor of various candidates to the city health system and the city retirement system boards. Thus defied, the Board of Education faced a dilemma. Should it risk firing six of the city's top teachers? Or should it simply try to overlook the whole affair...
...people said yes, by a landslide. On the basis of nearly final returns, the Democrats won 508 out of 541 seats. Celal Bayar would undoubtedly be chosen President, and would undoubtedly reappoint his strongman Premier Adnan Menderes, who is a first-class orator, a wily politician, and a millionaire. For the U.S., the result-though it assured a comforting continuity-was less important than the resounding demonstration of Turkish democracy at work...
...move" against the anti-New Deal oldsters on the Supreme Court-a fight in which "I hope to be able to take part." With an air of conscious righteousness, he records a piece of White House scuttlebutt: F.D.R. is about to sack more than half his Cabinet,* but will reappoint Honest Harold...
...Gunderson when Gunderson was RFC director in charge of the Carthage Hydrocol loan. He called on RFC's new boss, Stuart Symington, to talk about a delay on the payments. And in October 1950, after Gunderson got the news that the President wasn't going to reappoint him to RFC, Gabrielson tried unsuccessfully to get him a job as president of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Answer. Eccles asked the then Attorney General, Tom Clark, to prosecute Transamerica as a monopoly, but got no where. So Eccles decided that FRB should do so. In November 1947 FRB ordered an anti-trust investigation. The President declined to reappoint Eccles as FRB chairman two months later. Writes Eccles: "The principal pressure that shaped the President's decision came . .. from within the inner citadel of the Giannini banking interests . . . Those who were responsible ... no doubt expected that I would resign . . . and the way would be cleared thereafter for continuous expansion...