Word: oust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southerners arrived in Washington determined to second the vote of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee and oust moderation-minded Louisiana National Committeeman Camille F. Gravel Jr., who, since 1954, has backed several civil rights measures. Gravel was supported by National Chairman Paul Butler, who insisted that only the National Committee itself can boot one of its members. Gravel won a resounding 91-to-15 vote of endorsement...
When Prosecutor Chamberlain squeaked past Representative Don Hayworth in 1956, he was one of only nine U.S. Republicans to oust incumbent Democrats from House seats. He landed in Washington with bright expectations: "I was kind of steamed up about being on the team and finding out who the quarterback was." He found out all right: the only quarterback for Chuck Chamberlain was Chuck Chamberlain. "My God," he recalls, "the Welcome Wagon came out to see Mrs. Chamberlain when we had the electric meter hooked up, but nobody from the Republican high command came around to see me." From House Republican...
...control, which saw almost all the company's stock taken out of circulation. Originally, the shorts had sold at a price of about $42, expecting the stock to decline because book value and earnings indicated a price closer to $30 a share. They guessed wrong. Trying to oust the Bruce family management, which owns 31% of the 314,600 shares outstanding, New York Manufacturer Edward Gilbert and his associates began buying, sent the price to $77 by June. More than 280,000 shares were traded, including at least 16,000 short sales. So badly squeezed were the shorts that...
...unions, the Air Line Pilots Assn. (A.L.P.A.), which negotiates for the nation's 15,000 airline pilots, and the Flight Engineers' International Assn.. which speaks for 3,500 U.S. mechanic-engineers now working on big DC-7s and Super Constellations. In the pilots' attempt to oust the engineers, says Western Air Lines President Terrell C. Drinkwater. "we were selected as a guinea pig for the entire industry...
PROXY FIGHT to oust Penn-Texas Boss Leopold Silberstein will be attempted by three directors: Robert C. Finkelstein and Wallace S. Whittaker, who were elected by anti-Silberstein rebels last year, and Major General Charles T. Lanham, onetime Silberstein ally. They are trying to win over three neutral directors who swing power balance on eleven-man board...