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...from coastal Seward to the biggest city in Alaska's interior, gold-mining Fairbanks (pop. 2,101). A dour, 69-year-old, spectacled, Republican Swede named Otto Frederick Ohlson is its top man. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who has jurisdiction over A. R. R., does not oust Ohlson from his $14,500 job because in eleven years Republican Ohlson has reduced its annual operating deficit from $1,000,000 to the break-even point: 1936 $17,444 loss, 1937 $172,066 loss, 1938 $76,704 profit, 1939 $19,831 loss (exclusive, of course, of any return...
...Europe be negotiated now, Mr. de Valera slipped in a request for U. S. moral support "to our efforts to have the partition of our country immediately brought to an end." But most embarrassing to the Prime Minister would be a violent attempt of the I. R. A. to oust British rule from Northern Ireland. No Government of Eire could ever cooperate with the British Gov ernment in putting down an Irish rebel lion, no matter how much it despised I. R. A.'s terroristic program, and noncooperation would lose Eire valuable British good will...
...word "fellow" itself is derived from a Medieval English word meaning "holder of property." The President and Fellows hold Harvard's vast and far-flung empire, formulate the University's financial and educational policies, and alone can choose or oust a President...
...thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...
...Unaffected by 70% nitric, full-strength hydrochloric acids, or by most other acids and alkalis, Vinyon aims to oust cotton and wool from important industrial filter uses...