Word: oust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round 18. As a member of the Rockefeller proxy committee, Winthrop Williams Aldrich announced that he and his colleagues held proxies for 51% of the stock of Standard Oil of Indiana, or enough to enable Mr. Rockefeller Jr. to win the fight and oust Col. Stewart. Mr Aldrich is a son of the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (oldtime friend and intimate of Mr. Rockefeller Sr.) . . . the younger Aldrich now attacks for his impregnable brother...
...specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could? and probably will?attend to the technical points involved in the battle of proxies. But no other lawyer could bring to the Rockefeller cause such enormous prestige, such widespread confidence...
After such a long period as undisputed head of his clan, the Student Vagabond was shocked to discover that a plot had been made to oust him from his position. Yesterday morning the blow fell when one of his own supporters bestowed the title of King of the Vagabonds upon a usurper whose only claim to distinction was his attendance at an examination in a course he was not taking, a vowedly from motives of curiosity. True, the loyal forces suppressed the traitor and his protege, but the Student Vagabond's security demands a public explanation...
...BANCO," anyone may become the banker of a table if he wins a stake. Usually the Syndicate is allowed to do all the "Banco"-shouting. Last year however an apparently rich Cal ifornian who said his name was "Mr. Day" wanted to play bank and was graciously allowed to oust the Syndicate. On the first coup they wagered a half-million francs against Banker Day at one end of the table and a million at the other. As he dealt the cards they stood to lose $60,000; but he lost instead, at both ends of the table. Thereafter...
...Stewart promised to comply with this request. Nine months passed and Col. Stewart did not resign, in fact refused to resign. Mr. Rockefeller Jr. sailed for Egypt last fortnight, but left behind him a letter to stockholders, expressing loss of confidence in Col. Stewart and asking for proxies to oust him. In Chicago, Col. Stewart replied: "If the Rockefellers want to fight, I'll show them how to fight" (TIME...