Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since July 25. Their thankless job was to mete out justice to eleven Army cadets, confessed conspirators in the assassination of "Pacifist" Premier Ki Inukai (TIME, May 23, 1932). Not only for this are the cadets national heroes. They also plotted a coup to tear up the Japanese constitution, oust "grafting politicians" and restore "direct Imperial rule." Clearly the judges, who might themselves be assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with relief to the August Spirit of the Meiji Emperor...
...proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau y San Martin in favor of sly, bearded General Mario G. Menocal, onetime President of Cuba (1913-21). General Menocal deceived nobody when he proclaimed: "I probably have less personal ambition than any man in Cuba...
...Pastor Robinson angrily struck Businessman Ackerman, who retaliated. Businessman Ackerman held a $10,000 bond as guarantor of a mortgage on the church. To protect his investment he bid in the church at a foreclosure sale. Last week he presented his fellow Lutherans with an ultimatum: they could oust Pastor Robinson and buy Businessman Ackerman's church, or they could get out. The congregation promptly got out, taking their pastor with them and setting up a church of their own in a private house. Businessman Ackerman ruefully surveyed his Church-by-the-Sea, wondered what one can do with...
Thus did Publisher Hearst's sudden crusade to oust the Mayor of the No. 2 U.S. city finally come crashing out into the open. For a week the front pages of the Herex and the afternoon American had been smeared with thundering innuendos to the effect that a top-notch Chicago politician had been in an income tax jam with the Federal Government. The constant use of Mayor Kelly's picture left readers in small doubt as to who was meant. All the Mayor would say when questioned was: "Any answer I might make would...
...court action brought by the receiver for Chicago's Drake Hotel to oust the founder's sons, John & Tracy Drake, from their rent-free nine-room suites (TIME, June 19): a court order for the Drakes to pack up and move. The Drakes packed up and moved off-the Tracy Drakes on a motor trip, the John Drakes to a Sheridan Road apartment...