Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upset reapportionment legislation in Missouri, Minnesota and New York; approved the jailing of Alphonse Capone and the fining of Harry M. Blackmer, oil runaway, for contempt of court (see p. 12); invalidated Oklahoma's law to limit ice dealers by "convenience & necessity" license; denied the Senate's right to oust George Otis Smith from the Federal Power Commission after sending his confirmed nomination back to the President...
With such arguments by counsel and witnesses, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, on behalf of her three children,* tried in District of Columbia court last fortnight to oust her estranged husband. Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, as co-trustee of the McLean estate. He was, she charged, the millstone around the bowed neck of the Post...
...shipping foods. About 180,000 refrigerator cars costing $3,500 each (against $5,000 for a 2 car) are only a part of the railroad industry's great investment in ice facilities. To be as successful as its sponsors hope, 2 would have to replace all this, also oust mechanical refrigerators...
...first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure." The Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement League began to circulate a petition for a special election to oust him. Though the League could not get one-third of the signatures required for a recall vote, Mayor Key had to withdraw from his men's Bible class at Grace Methodist Church. Thereupon he began a non-denominatiorial Bible class in a theatre where he was free to excoriate...
Have school boards the right to oust lazy or stupid students? Many a tax-paying parent might feel that, having paid his money, he has his rights. Last May this question interested one Jean West, 19, freshman at the Teachers' College of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) which is State-supported. Suspended for failure to maintain a required standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed...