Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Were this threat made good, the seven Laborite Deputies would swing their balance of power against the de Valera Government and oust it when the Dail met. As Dublin clocks struck midnight the Cabinet hastily conferred. Reporters bunched respectfully a few paces from the locked door. At 12:45 a. m. it opened, the President announced dissolution, cried in ringing tones: "I have no doubt that my Government possesses the confidence of the country! We shall win the election and our victory will automatically abolish the Oath of Allegiance" (sworn by Free State Deputies & Senators to King George...
...price Loew's was to pay its producing subsidiary for its pictures. To settle it once & for all, the contract was modified to give the Thalberg-Mayer-Rubin partnership a proportionate cut in the profits of Loew's the parent company. ¶ Rebellious stockholders failed to oust the Brothers Warner-Harry, Albert & Jack-from control of Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. at a five-day annual meeting at Wilmington, Del. While some 30 clerks counted proxies, the 700 stockholders who attended had to be moved to a nearby Warner theatre (operated but two days a week for lack...
Secretary of War Hurley carried his campaign for the Hoover recovery program flamboyantly into Tennessee. At Johnson City he was heckled and booed because of his opposition to the Bonus, his treatment of the B. E. F. When a policeman started to oust the heckler, Secretary Hurley exclaimed: "Let him alone. Let him earn his money. Such demonstrations are prompted by reports of the American Legion convention broadcast by a Boston ward-heeling politician who never saw the inside of a U. S. uniform. . . .? Yes, I'm opposed to the Bonus and I've got nerve enough...
...understood that the action of the well-known professor of ecclesiastical history in resigning was prompted by the alleged move on the part of certain members of the Theological School to oust him following the granting of a divorce to their colleague during the summer. The Corporation refused to take any action on the matter in its last meeting, and Professor Lake's many friends among both professors and students protested vigorously against any such possibility...
...distributed them among 21 vaudeville acts loosely held together by conversations between stage and a lower box, and had six left over for a claque. Producer Brown called the result "super-vaudeville." Actors' Equity Association called it a revue, ordered the 33 Equity members to quit, threatened to oust them when they refused. Last week none had given notice, none had been dropped from Equity, Producer Brown was still filling two houses a day, including Sunday, at prices from...