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...Nasser assumed power in name as well as fact, it looked as if the long struggle for power was over. The shrewd and ambitious lieutenant colonel who masterminded the army revolt that ousted King Farouk had at last completed his triumph over the affable and beloved general he had put in as front...
Died. Joseph Patrick Tumulty, 74, shrewd Jersey City ward politician who rose to be the longtime (1911-21) secretary to Woodrow Wilson; in Olney, Md. After unsuccessfully opposing Wilson's bid for the New Jersey governorship in 1910, Tumulty joined Wilson's camp, became his closest political adviser. As a highly effective political balance to his scholarly chief, gregarious Joe Tumulty reveled in political dogfights, handled White House patronage, but was never noted for his verbal discretion. In 1919, when Wilson was stricken by cerebral thrombosis, Tumulty suggested that he be declared incapable of holding office and allow...
...only to sit back and wait for the invitations to pour in. During a mad period of flowering that lasts for three months, her mornings are spent in beauty sleep, her afternoons and evenings at a never-ending round of teas, dinners and balls, her nights at nightclubs. A shrewd father can cut the upkeep for the season down to as low as ?1,000, but many a deb runs up the tabs to well over...
...option of selling back the stock in six months at $25 a share (the price they paid for it), they cannot lose if it goes down, will get the profits if it goes up. Thus, Alleghany takes all the risk and none of the profits, unless the two shrewd Texans voluntarily cut in the company. Said Murchison: "If the stock is selling at 30 or 35, we will hold...
...language, and not in their native Bengali. The United Front promised to do away with this "colonial status" and to speed up land reform with no compensation to the disliked landlords. East Pakistanis responded by voting the many-sided opposition local control of half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances. The alternative: a mounting East Pakistan demand for provincial autonomy on domestic issues, which...