Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring Philip Fox* ("Phil") La Follette, 33, Republican Progressive, brought a court action against Wisconsin's Governor Walter Jodok Kohler ("of Kohler," plumbing tycoon), Republican stalwart, to oust him for excessive campaign expenditures. The action failed (TIME, May 26). Last week Philip La Follette successfully disposed of Governor Kohler in another way when he defeated him in the Republican primary for the gubernatorial nomination by 120,000 votes. With the nomination equivalent to election "Phil" La Follette will enter the Madison State House just 30 years after his late great father, Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, to carry...
...show down" on the chairmanship, though Mr. Huston had technically summoned it to discuss campaign plans. Those present included Vice Chairman Pomeroy, Treasurer Nutt, General Counsel Burke, Congressman Will Wood, chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee, two members of the Republican Executive Committee. They had no authority to oust the chairman, but were primed to force the issue...
...Lipsky, president of the Zionist organization of America. Leader of the other (in absentia) was Louis Dembitz Brandeis chairman of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs (1914-18), Honorary President of the L. O. A. from 1918 to 1921 (when U. S. Zionists, displeased with his principles, ousted him and his whole group from their organization). Now he wanted to oust the Lipsky group...
...bare 12% of the house. He has, however, a great & good friend: Per Albin Hansson, leader of the 90 Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish dog. Irt 1926, in similar circumstances, His Majesty made the Great Templar Prime Minister for the first time, and Tail Ekman then wagged Sweden...
...revolt spread to the House where North Carolina's Representative Abernethy introduced a resolution to oust the 700 dial instruments on that side of the Capitol...