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Ward, expressing similar confidence, also noted that Business School application figures were not affected when the government withdrew GI privileges prior to the Korean...
Mike asked nothing in return for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2. After the polls were closed, the two dissident voters came around to apologize in person. They had meant to cast their votes for Mike, they said, but they were illiterate and couldn't read the ballot...
When the trustees of the University of Illinois met to vote for a new president this week, they faced an awkward situation. Angered over what he called the "public review" of his past, the favorite candidate, Vice Chancellor David Dodds Henry of New York University, withdrew from the race (TIME, Dec. 6). Nevertheless, the trustees voted unanimously to elect Henry anyway, and Board President Herbert B. Megran traveled to Manhattan to persuade him to accept. At week's end, after a day-long huddle, Henry gave in. Assured of the board's full cooperation, a $30,000 salary...
...walkout from the Liberal Party. Hatoyama once led the party, had to turn it over to Yoshida when purged as "undesirable" by Douglas MacArthur, and never got the leadership back. Hostilities deepened when Mamoru Shigemitsu, 65, a crippled ex-war criminal who signed the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, withdrew the support of his right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces combined to form a big, new, conservative "Japan Democratic Party," with 124 seats and heavy business support. Many Socialists would probably vote with...
...caught short on a sale of one of its seats: the membership of Broker Edward Platt to Broker W. Allston Flagg for $74,000. Platt promptly protested the sale. He had indeed once asked the exchange to sell his membership, but later changed his mind and formally withdrew the request...