Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victorious One, hero of the Young Turks' victorious war to oust the Sultan, has now caught the international itch for concluding peace treaties. Last week, he proclaimed, as President of Turkey, that Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey had signed a treaty of "security and conciliation" with Italy and treaties of "security, conciliation, collaboration and active aid in case of attack" with Persia and Afghanistan...
Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine made the error several years ago of seeming friendly to the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is now dead in Maine, as elsewhere, but the smudge of pitch lasts long. Governor Brewster tried to oust U. S. Senator Frederick Hale in Maine's Republican primary last week. He reminded the voters that Senator Hale voted to seat U. S. Senators-suspect Vare and Smith. But the Hale men reminded the voters of Governor Brewster's onetime Klannishness. Senator Hale was renominated by a margin of some 30,000 votes...
...seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from the Wartime U. S. Emergency Fleet. Some Congressmen had tried to require the Board's unanimous vote, or six-out-of-seven. President Coolidge is anxious to oust the U. S. from the shipping business. To a provision doubling the pay of U. S. merchant mariners who join the Naval Reserve, the President had objected, but accepted it finally, knowing it would please patriots...
Political Angle. No man in Chicago counts himself a politician of any repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers...
Going to help his brother, John W. Cox, 21, Harvard student, insisted upon riding in the club car of a Boston-to-New York train, although he lacked money for the Pullman fare. The conductor tried to oust him. John W. Cox protested and, according to the conductor, became abusive. John W. Cox was removed from the train and jailed overnight in Pelham...