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...company which accounts for less than 1% of the total U. S. automobile business, Hupp Motor Car Corp. makes an astonishing amount of financial news. For several years most of the news concerned the strenuous efforts of Archie Moulton Andrews, Hupp's biggest stockholder, to oust the old management. By last autumn Mr. Andrews was safely intrenched in the Hupp offices as board chairman, but peace failed to follow. Just as strenuous efforts were promptly launched to oust Mr. Andrews. And by last week the shrewd, breezy archpromoter, who does most of his work in a labyrinth of lawsuits...
...cooperate with Government regulations, his critics feel that the public will never be convinced that the field marshal of the spectacular fight against regulation has really had a change of heart. The quickest way, say they, to restore "public confidence" (i.e. public trading and more commissions) is to oust Mr. Whitney and his old-order administration...
...unmistakable provincial Premier Hepburn tried to curry favor with Catholics by promising money from Ontario's educational funds to aid their parochial schools. Since 41% of all Canadians are Catholics, this was considered a smart opening move by Ontario's Liberal "Mitch"' in his game to oust and succeed Dominion Liberal Leader William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...Dealers of New York City whom Mr. Ickes ordered to oust Republican Robert Moses from the Triborough Bridge Authority before more Federal funds would be advanced (TIME, Jan. 21). When the Virgin Islands trouble broke last week Mr. Ickes was in Manhattan telling the Dutch Treat Club: "I was introduced to you as the Secretary of Interior, but ... I should have been introduced as Pharaoh's daughter. How was I to know that New York had only one honest man to serve as a public official...
...second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence...