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Expanding Sphere. In 1952, in return for helping Dave Beck supplant the late Dan Tobin as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hoffa was made an I.B.T. vice president. Since then Beck has watched with apparent helplessness while Hoffa expanded his sphere of influence. Not long ago, in a bid to get enough votes to control the teamsters' New York Joint Council, Hoffa quietly procured charters for seven small New York locals, dominated by convicted Extortionist Johnny Dio. Nor does Hoffa's ambition stop with control of the I.B.T. as it now stands. Ultimately, as his negotiations...
...Reds are moving in upon us," warned Colonel Alvin Mansfield Owsley, 67, a past national commander of the American Legion (1922-23), who accused the four painters of being Communist sympathizers. "Let us hold together . . . Let those who would plant a red picture supplant it with the red, white and blue. White for purity, blue for fidelity, as blue as our Texas bluebonnets...
...were not for a peculiarity of the vice-presidency considered as a political stance. At best, it is a poor political pulpit. With a President whose health is a matter of public speculation, a Vice President who attempts to defend himself seems to be trying to supplant the President. Nixon, therefore, has had little choice but to stay quiet and take it on the chin. By now the chin is so thoroughly bruised by glancing blows that some Republican leaders are saying he would be a poor candidate because the opposition to him is so strong...
...wrote a famous book with the prophetic title: The Revolt of the Masses. In the U.S., and in Europe as well, it was a Depression-time bestseller, whose striking Nietzschean phrases punctuated parlor talk and political arguments about whether, in the 20th century technological civilization, mass man tends to supplant the elite...
...foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation's needs. Said President Ruiz Cortines: "The objective of the government . . . is clear: to complement, advise and stimulate enterprise, not to supplant it." As a stimulating start, Mexico offered utilities more government loans, help in getting U.S. Export-Import and World Bank loans and-most welcome of all-rate boosts...