Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military from the government. Naguib, appearing on the balcony, ignored the agitators and told the crowd: ''I owe you my life. Everything will go in the right direction." The mob responded by dispersing. As a gesture to the evident public dissatisfaction with the behind-the-scenes rule of the junta, the R.C.C. announced vague plans to create a parliamentlike assembly. The worst seemed over. Nasser was still running the show but had lost prestige. Naguib, whose position as leader had its origins in a fiction, had found his people eager to take it as a fact...
...copies of the book, just for adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...
...death the name may turn up in Who Was Who. Alger Hiss went out after he was convicted of perjury. German-American Bundsman Fritz Kuhn as well as Communist Boss William Z. Foster were knocked out for being too "notorious." No sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures that Who's Who has listed: West Point's Football Coach Earl Blaik, Gene Tunney and Bobby Jones. In the 1952-53 edition Editor Sammons himself was dropped as an office joke perpetrated by his daughter, but he is back...
...they wanted to, had little to say about what they would do with their stock. Drawled Murchison, as though his $10 million part in the transaction had almost eluded his memory: "We did purchase some New York Central ... It made good earnings last year, and we put our slide rule to it. It looks as if it should make much better in 1956." Richardson, even more noncommittal, said: "A man is getting in a hell of a shape if he can't buy something without people wanting to know what he's doing...
...Boys from Athens. But it didn't take a slide rule to figure out what Murchison-Richardson were doing. By buying the big block of stock, they freed it from a voting trusteeship in the Chase National Bank, where it was placed on orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Chase National, whose President Percy J. Ebbott had joined other Central directors in turning down Young's demand for the chairmanship of the board, might well have voted the stock against Young. Now, with his own holdings and those of friends, Young could count...