Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring young Lawyer Philip Fox La Follette, Republican Progressive, brought a court action against Governor Walter Jodok Kohler ("of Kohler," bathroom ceramics), to oust him for excessive campaign expenditures. The suit failed (TIME, May 26) but last September Lawyer La Follette defeated Governor Kohler in the gubernatorial primary. In November the electorate decreed young Phil should be governor...
...drive. Rights to manufacture Ruxtons were sold to Moon Motor Co. Also, William Crapo Durant sold to Moon rights to manufacture his American cotton picker, of which much has been said, not much seen. New Era Motors received 150,000 shares of Moon in the deal, soon decided to oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon rose to $16? a share. But Ruxtons were never produced commercially and fewer Moons have been sold this year than last. Last week Moon stock, selling at 75 cents, was stricken from...
...issue: Belgians are linguistically a mixture of French speakers and Flemish speakers, each faction striving to oust the language of the other from Belgium's schools. Last February the famed University of Ghent was made 100% Flemish-speaking by Parliament. Recently Minister of Science & Arts Maurice Vauthier decreed that no professor from the University of Ghent may teach in other Belgian colleges...
...lone Negro member of the 71st Congress will be the lone Negro member of the 72nd. No Democrat was strong enough to oust Republican Representative Oscar De Priest, pride of Chicago's "Black Belt...
...been able to obtain from the small "centre" parties and the Socialist party (largest) any assurance that these would stand together in a coalition, supporting either Herr Briining's or some other moderate cabinet against the Fascist Right and Communist Left?two extremes quite capable of voting together to oust a government which pleased neither...