Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Insull and told him that his brother Martin would have to give up his job as president of Middle West Utilities; there was evidence that Martin had used the company's money to bolster up a private brokerage account. Sam Insull pleaded with him not to oust Brother Martin, saying, "He has not a dollar left." But Receiver McCulloch was adamant. He was equally adamant when, on June 3, he went to Samuel Insull and demanded his resignation because he sanctioned two of Martin's alleged pilferings. Empire Building. That was the end of Samuel Insull...
Common Task, When Yankee Methodists in 1844 sought to oust Bishop James Osgood Andrew as a slave-owner. Southerners objected that under Methodist law that was no ground. The two branches shortly parted. Fortnight ago in the episcopal address delivered by Rt. Rev. John M. Moore of Dallas, representing the mind of the Southern Church's 14 living bishops, one passage read: "We cherish the hope that at some time we shall be wise enough to find a way whereby a united Methodist may with undivided energies and unwasted resources deliver her full strength upon the common task...
Stoutly defended by Socialist Shorter, these murals brought 298 members of Pilgrim Church together one night last week. The pastor's supporters noted many a one who had not entered the church in years. When a vote was taken it was 177 to oust, 121 to retain...
...Kansas City, where a reform movement to oust Boss Thomas Joseph Pendergast from city control was defeated fortnight ago in a mayoral election accompanied by wholesale sluggings and four fatal shootings (TIME, April 9), a bullet whizzed into the dining room of lanky, white-haired City Manager Henry F. McElroy, 68. Manager McElroy, in the adjoining sun room, was uninjured. Next clay his 26-year-old Daughter Mary, for whose release he paid $30,000 when she was kidnapped last May, was summoned to the telephone. A voice barked: "We never miss the second time...
...banker who helped found Freeport in 1913. Working control of Freeport had passed to Eric P. Swenson, onetime chairman of National City Bank, by the time young, energetic Langbourne Williams graduated from the Harvard Business School. But by 1930, after his Lee, Higginson apprenticeship, Mr. Williams was ready to oust the old management which had, among other things, let Freeport's reserves approach the point of exhaustion. He became vice president and a Baltimore banker named Eugene Norton took the presidency "in trust." Last year Langbourne Williams felt he was old enough to assume official control and Banker Norton...