Word: oust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shell is agitating for tariff restrictions in India which will virtually oust Standard from the great Indian market...
...seven months since the new Mayor, in his official inaugural address, declared his intention, though he has no proper jurisdiction over the schools, to proceed to oust the superintendent...
...mayor since 1912-crisp, greying Mayor James ( Plain Jim of the Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep...
...From Peru to see President Coolidge came Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, now U. S. Ambassador to Peru but soon to retire. Ambassador Poindexter said that European influences, especially Russian, are at work in South America to make the U. S. unpopular there, to oust the U. S. from South American markets. Washington pondered who Ambassador Poindexter's successor might be. Banker John W. Garrett of Baltimore seemed likely...
Significance. Censorship veiled conditions in Rumania to such an extent that prognostication seems impossible. However, it is known that disatisfaction in that country is such that all the opposition parties are only too glad to hang their hats on the Carplist peg in order to oust Prime Minister Bratiano and what they call his corrupt regime. The Carolist movement in Rumania may be seen, therefore, in the light of an anti-Bratiano rather than a pro-Carol move. If this be true, anything may happen, and not the least possible is the recall of the onetime Crown Prince...