Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unmistakable provincial Premier Hepburn tried to curry favor with Catholics by promising money from Ontario's educational funds to aid their parochial schools. Since 41% of all Canadians are Catholics, this was considered a smart opening move by Ontario's Liberal "Mitch"' in his game to oust and succeed Dominion Liberal Leader William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...Dealers of New York City whom Mr. Ickes ordered to oust Republican Robert Moses from the Triborough Bridge Authority before more Federal funds would be advanced (TIME, Jan. 21). When the Virgin Islands trouble broke last week Mr. Ickes was in Manhattan telling the Dutch Treat Club: "I was introduced to you as the Secretary of Interior, but ... I should have been introduced as Pharaoh's daughter. How was I to know that New York had only one honest man to serve as a public official...
...second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence...
...election as Governor. Governor-elect Moodie claimed that he had been out of North Dakota only temporarily, had never intended to change his legal residence. A State District Court vacated the injunction, allowed him to be sworn in at Bismarck last week. Pending, however, was a suit to oust him from office brought by the State Attorney General. Because his title was still beclouded, North Dakota's Legislature last week refused to hear Governor Moodie's inaugural address...
...Washington there was incredible gossip to the effect that behind the St. Louis indictments lay an Administration desire to oust Republican Will Hays as tsar of the industry and install a Democrat, possibly Postmaster General Farley...