Word: oust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowed to ake his seat, because of charges pending against him. These charges, as summed up last week in the report of Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject (as is Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois...
Such were circumstantial details flashed from Mukden via Japan to the U. S. Since the Japanese are no friends of Young Chang, confirmation must be awaited. Quite another story which seeped out of Mukden was that "Ludendorff" Yang was unmasked in a plot to oust Young Chang, discovered to have "misappropriated" staggering sums, and presently shot as a traitor before a firing squad...
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...meeting of the High Council, composed of the 63 Army commissioners, was called. It had never met before. Its sole function is to oust an unfit leader, choose...
...reasons not mentioned by perfunctory Portuguese correspondents, last week, Prime Minister Vicente Freitas resigned with his whole Cabinet and then reconstituted it, as he does every now and then.* Usually this commonplace political trick is turned when it is desired to oust some objectionable minister or ministers (see South Africa...