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...standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City he subsequently made his peace with Hoover. When the Muscle Shoals lobbying scandal compelled the G. O. P. to oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts...
Merry-Go-Round: The drive to oust Harry Woodring as Assistant Secretary of War is becoming more intense. Spearhead of the drive is the general staff and its chief, General Douglas A. MacArthur. General Staff officers have laid down almost an ultimatum that Harry Woodring goes out. General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff was guilty of disloyalty and mutinous conduct, one of the most serious offenses in the Articles...
...Samuel Insull and told him that his brother Martin would have to give up his job as president of Middle West Utilities; there was evidence that Martin had used the company's money to bolster up a private brokerage account. Sam Insull pleaded with him not to oust Brother Martin, saying, "He has not a dollar left." But Receiver McCulloch was adamant. He was equally adamant when, on June 3, he went to Samuel Insull and demanded his resignation because he sanctioned two of Martin's alleged pilferings. Empire Building. That was the end of Samuel Insull...
Common Task, When Yankee Methodists in 1844 sought to oust Bishop James Osgood Andrew as a slave-owner. Southerners objected that under Methodist law that was no ground. The two branches shortly parted. Fortnight ago in the episcopal address delivered by Rt. Rev. John M. Moore of Dallas, representing the mind of the Southern Church's 14 living bishops, one passage read: "We cherish the hope that at some time we shall be wise enough to find a way whereby a united Methodist may with undivided energies and unwasted resources deliver her full strength upon the common task...
Stoutly defended by Socialist Shorter, these murals brought 298 members of Pilgrim Church together one night last week. The pastor's supporters noted many a one who had not entered the church in years. When a vote was taken it was 177 to oust, 121 to retain...