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...final assault on Narvik started after a warning had been broadcast to civilians by the British naval commander and leaflets had been dropped from airplanes saying that the Allies were ready to hammer the port from land, sea, and air to oust the Germans...
During the past two years the Japanese have bought up large real-estate holdings in order to control more votes. Three weeks ago they announced they would run five instead of the usual two Japanese candidates. They hoped to marshal enough votes to oust three British Councilmen, elect the three extra Japanese. If they could get them elected, and then coerce the five Chinese Councilmen, Japan could put the final squeeze on foreign business in China...
...girl), made the Russell appointment her business because her daughter might be going to C. C. N. Y. some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance she filed a taxpayer's suit in New York Supreme Court to oust the Earl, on grounds that he was an alien and an advocate of sexual immorality...
Sprawling Kensington, Pa., centre of the U. S. hosiery industry, has seen some sad sights. It has seen its busy mills-where in the palmy days before depression and improved machinery began to displace labor, a good knitter could make $125 a week-oust workers for machines; then close themselves for lack of work...
Even so, the Senate hesitated to oust him. While the 60 Workers' & Farmers' deputies were being expelled without further fuss, a Senate committee decided to examine Senator Cachin to determine the extent of his "heresy" from patriotism. But the aged Senator, behind closed doors, refused stanchly to renounce the Communist International, so the committee had no choice but to vote unanimously to admit him no more to Luxembourg Palace...