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Dwight Eisenhower is passionately determined to keep the breath of scandal away from his Administration. Last week this determination erupted into the firing of the Federal Housing Commissioner, Guy T. O. Hollyday, though no one sus pected him of wrongdoing. Eisenhower simply got impatient at what he consid ered Hollyday's too-relaxed attitude to ward old scandals...
Also ousted last week was William Childs & Wife & Family from management of the 125-restaurant chain founded by two brothers Childs. To control came William A. Barber with perhaps the backing of certain Delaware du Ponts. On the new Childs directorate are Hollyday S. Meeds Jr., son-in-law of T. Coleman du Pont and Lucius M. Boomer, with whose hotel interests the du Ponts are said to be connected. So little has the Childs Co. remained the child of Childs, that sentimental Brother William appeared to own less than 3% of its stock. Nevertheless he said, on quitting: "This...