Word: shakeup
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...substitution may be made before the game. Frank Owen, who played well against Dummer on Wednesday will start as usual at second base. Tom Bilodeau has swapped places with Louis Carr in the infield lineup and will start at first, while Carr will play at short. This shakeup was made during Wednesday's game and will probably be permanent...
Behind him he left orders for the greatest NRA shakeup since last summer. Part of a logical transition from code-making to enforcement, it decentralized authority, delegated to an administrative staff many of the powers he formerly exercised. To head this staff he appointed Lieut.-Colonel G. A. Lynch, whom he described as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army." Col. Lynch, a classmate of General Johnson at West Point, was detached from the infantry and assigned to the NRA two weeks...
Last week Henry Herbermann was unceremoniously ousted from the presidency of his company. The Shipping Board's credit expert, appointed to investigate lines in debt to the Government, had decided that Export needed a thorough shakeup. Summoned was brusque William Hugh Coverdale, financial engineer, president of Canada Steamship Lines, to take the presidency of Export. Exporter Herbermann was made vice president, will cooperate with the new management in paying off the loans he contracted...
...Cabinet adopted a characteristic Bratianu policy: suppression of freedom of the press. Twelve pro-Peasant newspapers had their entire editions confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials," said a close friend of Dino Bratianu with grim humor, "will have the duty of seeing that the election, which we will soon hold, results in a Liberal victory...
...sixth editorship in the last twelve years. In turn he was night managing editor of the New York Herald, assistant managing editor of the Tribune, managing editor of Cyrus Curtis' Evening Post, next of the World, then of the Post again. Few weeks ago a Post shakeup shook Managing Editor Renaud out (TIME, Sept. 18). Promptly he was hired by Eugene Meyer, new publisher of the Washington Post, who may not return to a member bank until two years after his resignation as governor of the Federal Reserve Board last...