Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50,000,000 estate. Said Mr. McCormick: "Stanley's mind has always been unimpaired but there has been an interruption between the processes of his mind . . . tremendous mental conflict." He told how he once took his mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus McCormick Sr., to a hill hard by the Santa...
...hunting party in Novalera, and Alba was with him. Dictator Primo de Rivera has not forgotten that Alfonso XIII was ostensibly on a motor trip when he summoned General Primo de Rivera to supreme power. It might barely be that the King now fancied he could oust Primo for Alba. After much telegraphing to the Royal Hunting Lodge, the blunt, obese Dictator issued a personal and arrestingly gracious statement...
...Hague Reparations Parley (TIME, Aug. 5). Left cannot lead for long where Right has led. In the Hague emergency M. Briand accepted the thankless, tightrope-walking task. Last week with the curt frankness of an aging, tired man, he told the Deputies that he knew they would soon oust him, begged them in the name of common sense not to do so until the Young Reparations Plan approved at the Hague Conference had been ratified...
Cleveland is the largest of some 400 U. S. city-manager-plan cities. Next largest is Cincinnati where last week a determined effort was being planned by old-line Republican politicians to gain control of the city council at the November election, to restore politics to the city government, oust able City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill...
...Ashville, N.C., City College last fortnight Dean Henry Dexter Learned gave students, including girls, permission to smoke in the college building between classes. An outraged Board of Education planned to meet and oust Dr. Learned. A committee of parents and students planned to keep him in. The Dean calmly explained: "If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This is the biggest cigaret producing state in the Union...