Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another day last week the subcommittee met President Eisenhower's brother-in-law. Colonel George Gordon Moore Jr., 54, accused last month by ousted Subcommittee Counsel Bernard Schwartz (TIME, Feb. 24) of trying to swing FCC decisions through his membership by marriage in "the White House clique." Colonel Moore, a crisp and courtly Texan, was born in Galveston, educated at St. Mary's Seminary (Roman Catholic) at La Porte, Texas, in 1940 married Mabel Frances
...reckoning came last week for pudgy, polished Leopold Dias Silberstein, 53. In the Manhattan board room of his failing Penn-Texas Corp.. directors bounced Silberstein from his two top jobs and turned them over to a pair of "neutral" directors who swing the power balance on the board. Although Silberstein held on to the presidency, his chairmanship of the executive committee went to Milton C. Weisman, 62, law partner of New York City's Congressman Emanuel Celler, and his board chairmanship fell to Banker Aaron L. Jacoby...
...King of Egypt and the Sudan"; the Sudanese ignored him. During the Sudan's first parliamentary elections in 1953, the Egyptian army officers who overthrew Farouk dispatched Major Salah Salem to dance with the natives in his undershorts and ladle out a reported $5,000,000 trying to swing the Sudanese toward merger with Egypt; the Sudanese politicians took the money, rejected the merger and, in 1955, declared themselves independent. Last week, flushed with his success to the east, ambitious Gamal Abdel Nasser brazenly attempted to expand to the south. He discovered that the Sudanese were not as annexation...
Plagued this year by a business recession and climbing unemployment, the government plans to cut back 1958 immigration to something like half of last year's 282,164. But the gates will doubtless swing wider just as soon as a reviving economy can absorb new manpower...
...FIGHT to oust Penn-Texas Boss Leopold Silberstein will be attempted by three directors: Robert C. Finkelstein and Wallace S. Whittaker, who were elected by anti-Silberstein rebels last year, and Major General Charles T. Lanham, onetime Silberstein ally. They are trying to win over three neutral directors who swing power balance on eleven-man board...