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...tally was recorded, famous names were called in victory or defeat. ¶J In Devonport, Randolph Churchill, Winston's only son, failed to unseat Bev-anite Michael Foote by 2,390 votes. But Churchill's two sons-in-law, Duncan Sandys (husband of Diana) and Christopher Soames (husband of Mary), won their Conservative seats...
This week the ballot count was announced. Green polled more votes than the management (1,010,000 to 598,000), but lacked the majority of all common shares (2,307,000) needed to unseat the management at a special meeting. Faced with probable defeat at the next regular meeting (where only a majority of those present would be needed), the management "compromised." It apparently planned to give Green a majority of directors on a new board...
...Word Telegrams. But some of his union members disagreed. In 1947 they complained of Behncke's dictatorial methods, tried to unseat him in union elections. Behncke won, largely as a result of a 5½-hour speech-"the best," wrote Editor Behncke, "the Old Man has ever made." But he lost some power. A.L.P.A. set up an executive board to check...
...take the general's own disclaimers at face value: before Congress, he had referred to himself as "in the fading twilight of life"; in Houston, asked if he would be a candidate for President, he replied, "Emphatically no." What was plainly clear was MacArthur's determination to unseat the President who fired...
Headlined London's Daily : THE BUG is BOSS. It said, "The influenza bug ... can unseat the government any day . . . Government by influenza is the latest phase of a year in which Mr. Attlee has hung on to power by six votes." A greater threat to the government than influenza is an increasing public swing to the right. The latest British Gallup poll showed last week that the government has the backing of only 38% of the electorate compared to 43% two months ago and 46% four months ago. Tory support has increased from 44% four months...