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Last week the Republican slate-making committee met and picked Merriam for mayor. The young (36) alderman wrote speeches for his friend Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 campaign, but broke with the city machine this year. Reformer Merriam, with great public show, avoided voting in the 1954 elections so that he would be eligible to run for mayor as a Republican in 1955. He has the support of Republican County Chairman Ed Moore and the tacit approval of Governor William...
McGinnis last week nominated a new slate of directors, including the eleven already on his side, and ten more to supplant the remaining Dumaine men. Said he: "I told Buck I'd offer him five directors if he'd agree that my offer would be effective only if he still held stock next April. Hearing no counteroffer, I simply proceeded...
Walter Reuther ruled the annual C.I.O. convention in Los Angeles last week with the precise authority of a schoolmarm. His slate of officers (with himself as president) was re-elected without opposition; his resolution praising the committee on A.F.L.-C.I.O. unity was quickly passed; his ideas on many subjects from foreign affairs (against blockading Red China) to a guaranteed annual wage (he is for it) were approved...
...Yalta's broken promises was that postwar Poland would be a democracy with a popularly elected government. To keep up this hollow fiction, the Polish Communist Party insists that Poles vote for a preselected slate of Communist candidates. Last week, announcing the results of current elections, Radio Warsaw added a shocked comment: in some villages "less than one-half of those entitled to vote went to the polls," while in others "less than one-half the number of required councilors were elected." The Communist corrective: elections will be reheld and villagers forced to vote...
Included in the full slate of new officers were two vice-presidents charged with the specific responsibility of arranging conferences and cultural activities. Their appointment "will give functional purpose to the office," Selya said...