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Died. Metropolitan Eulogius (born: Vasiliy Georgievsky), 78, grey-bearded Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Paris, titular head of all Russian Orthodox dioceses in Western Europe and North Africa; in Paris. Eulogius broke with the Moscow church in 1931, accepted the Patriarch of Constantinople as his chief until 1945, when he returned to the Soviet fold...
Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...
Although this made Attorney General Kenny titular head of the state Democrats, and automatically a plotter for Warren's downfall, he got along well with the Governor. With his usual unorthodoxy he had crossed party lines to back Warren in a previous campaign...
First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...
...Decision. The Communists adroitly proposed veteran Socialist Félix Gouin, 61, Assembly president and an amiable but not strong personality, as President. Presumably they did not care for the titular Socialist leader, aging Leon Blum, who is regarded as less than susceptible to Communist overtures. The Socialists did not bite...