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...powerful new support for the job: a state court of appeals decision upholding a city charter provision that any municipal employee who refuses, on the grounds of selfincrimination, to answer questions before an authorized body may be fired. Henceforth, all the board of education has to do to get rid of a suspected Red is to prove that he has used the Fifth Amendment to avoid an answer. First cases for the board to decide: those of the reluctant seven who refused to testify before Senator Ferguson...
...told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." Once, her teacher led her to a piano, put a piece of paper under the strings, and struck a chord. "That," she said, "is what your voice sounds like." Gertie worked hard to get rid of her cockney twang. On a Sunday excursion to Brighton, she put a penny in a fortune-telling machine. The pink card she got told her her fate: A star danced, And you were born...
Naguib's intention was to purge the army and the government of corruption and take Farouk down a peg. But the more extreme members of the officers' committee urged him to get rid of the King altogether. They were backed up by the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatic, powerful secret society, 500,000 strong...
...Wafd, Egypt's largest and most graft-ridden party, which Naguib turned out together with Farouk, only laughed in his face and is scheming day and night to recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty" from political office...
...fire an employee who is a Communist. The American Newspaper Guild; having fought hard to fire Communists from its own paid jobs, could scarcely deny it. Nevertheless, last week the Guild found itself upholding the fantastic claim that a newspaper publisher has no right (let alone duty) to rid himself of Communist writers...