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Last fortnight the Radical Party held a convention in Santiago's Teatro Municipal. At stake was not only the fate of the six ousted members, but also the whole broad question of Party policy; whether the Party should swing left or right-appease the Communists in the Popular Front or cooperate with the Socialists and oust the Communists. As the 600 delegates strolled into the hall one evening there was a sound of swiftly running feet in the Calle Huérfanos. Somebody shouted "Los Nacis!" Shots rang out and three delegates fell...
After 28 years, without interruption, during which Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague has dominated Jersey City, its voters last week went to the polls with another opportunity to oust him as mayor. The issue was whether they would elect Republicans who made charges of confiscatory taxes, fraudulent elections and municipal corruption, or whether they would again have Hague, who now promises to defend his constituents from the totalitarian menace. To no one's surprise they chose beaming Boss Hague-his tellers counted it as a 100,703-to-13,425 victory...
...three books of fiction, is also the most articulate critic of her accusers. Twelve years on the Mirror, she was a charter Guild organizer, a militant member of the Executive and Grievance Committees. She changed her mind last summer when 18 Mirror Guildsmen unsuccessfully petitioned the National Convention to oust Executives Milton Kaufman and Victor Pasche. Then began the rebel movement for the A.F. of L. American Newspaper Writers Association. A war of nerves followed at the Mirror...
...Dayton Company or any other public utility company." This week Morgan, Stanley had not decided whether to take the matter to court. If SEC is right, and Morgan, Stanley owes its utility business to J. P. Morgan's holding company affiliations, the disruption of the relationship will oust Morgan, Stanley from its No. 1 position in the utility underwriting field...
Patrioteers were outraged nevertheless. Jumping up at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting, an ex-Tammany judge named Alfred J. Talley demanded that New York City parents "stamp out this slimy enemy" and oust members of the Board of Higher Education (which runs the public colleges) for "neglect of duty." The Taxpayers Union's President Joseph Goldsmith demanded that City College be closed until "every un-American professor and student is removed...