Word: booting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rising up on the floor of the House, he blandly attacked the character of Under Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Will Clayton. He thundered that General Marshall should boot them both out of office. His harebrained charge: "making exorbitant profits by reason of their high places...
...smart. In Manhattan's Federal District Court, the U.S. Government filed a criminal information under the Commodities Exchange Act, charging the league and four of its topmost officers with illegally manipulating a commodity in interstate commerce. Maximum penalty: a $10,000 fine and one year in jail. To boot, the Department of Justice was making an antitrust investigation of the butter collapse, and the Department of Agriculture was considering a move to cut the January milk prices...
Your accurate piece on how self and wife were given the boot, or heave-ho, from the Social Register [TIME, Dec. 16] was not called to my attention. I found it myself...
...While the committeemen listened dutifully to Candidate Kennelly's acceptance speech, they thought about his record. He had started out as a $2-a-week Marshall Field employe, had risen to the top of Allied Van Lines, Inc. and of the Werner-Kennelly warehouse company to boot. He had slugged away at civic reform as a member of the police-badgering Chicago Crime Commission, had worked hard during the war for the Red Cross and Army relief...
...unhappy families in Hollywood, United Artists Corp. seemed to be the unhappiest. One-third owner Mary Pickford and one-third owner Charlie Chaplin had not been on speaking terms for a year and a half. Yet last week, via counsel, they agreed to boot out one-third owner David Oliver Selznick...