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...Block. Titular principal of Coca-Cola's vast educational institution is ex-Democratic Boss James A. Farley, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. But the boss of the Export Corp. is its president, slight, dapper James Curtis, who has spent nearly 27 of his 48 years with the company and whose gentle New Orleans drawl makes "Coca-Cola" sound like a whispered caress...
Join-or Else. Gangland murders increased, rival racketeers died untidily, and Charlie prospered. Binaggio decided he was big enough to take on Tom Pendergast's nephew Jim, the titular Democratic boss of Kansas City. In the 1948 primary, Binaggio's candidates beat Pendergast's for every county office...
...Titular Rank. Finally at week's end came an announcement from the Vatican: Archbishop Charbonneau's resignation-had been accepted "for reasons of health" and he had been named titular Archbishop of Bosphorus...
...tall, gaunt man stood up before a convention of farm-equipment dealers in Washington last week and made what he thought would be a scarcely noticed speech at a barely noticed meeting. Instead it cost him his job. The man was Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, titular head of the President's economic advisers. He began his speech by skeptically questioning a glittering prediction by his economist colleague, Leon Keyserling, of a $350 billion national income by 1958, with a $4,000 minimum a year for almost every family. Mr. Truman later used this as the basis...
After the elected Council convenes, it elects a mayor from among its members, who serves mainly as titular head of the council, presiding over meetings, and representing the city at birthdays, weddings, funerals and affairs of state. As real director of the municipality, the Council appoints a city manager, who may be anyone the nine chooses to select...