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With his own party's slate of candidates in good order, Rhee then set out to purge the opposition list of objectionable men. To Home Minister Paik Han Sung he sent a note listing three of the most objectionable: Assembly Chairman P. H. Shinicky, Vice Chairman Cho Bong Am, and former Home Minister Chough Pyung Ok-all members of the Democratic Nationalist Party (DNP). Minister Paik in turn set his remarkably efficient police force to "investigating" Shinicky, Cho and Chough. With election day less than a fortnight away, all three candidates seem to have been effectively eliminated from further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Campaign of Fear | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...provision allowing scholarship holders to keep their stipends even if their grades in especially difficult courses fall below the required scholarship average, In drafting such a regulation, the Committee on Educational Policy hoped to eliminate the aspect of mark-consciousness that often limits a student's program to a slate of "sure thing" courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marks and the Man | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...this afternoon, editors of both publications will gather on the steps of the 'Poon building to replace the Ibis upon the new copper and slate roof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thresky to Top Tile-less Tower, or A Bird Above Is Worth Two Below | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

...such as American Woolen. Munro would not say. But there was no doubt that McGinnis had voted his proxies more shrewdly than Dumaine. Under the New Haven's cumulative voting procedure, one share of stock counts for 21 votes. They can be spread out across the railroads entire slate of 21 directors, or lumped on one director. Knowing it would be close, McGinnis concentrated his strength on eleven directors, winning them all for a bare majority, while Dumaine split his among 15, won only ten. As it turned out, McGinnis might have walked off with even more directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The New Haven Decides | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...stock deals (his sale to Cyrus Eaton of control of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and the C. & O.'s sale of its New York Central holdings to Murchison-Richardson). But the ICC last week turned down the request. The Central filed another petition asking whether Young's slate could be lawfully seated if elected, but chances for a favorable ruling on that seemed slim, too. From another quarter, the Central gained an ally. An Alleghany Corp. stockholder, Mrs. Sadie Zenn, owner of 500 shares, filed a suit against the corporation, objecting to the fact that Alleghany had lent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Central's Courtin' Time | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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