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...friends among the contractors should continue to receive school-building contracts, or because he wished to provide the imbecile proportion of Chicago's population with a practical demonstration of his patriotic campaign cries, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago last April arranged to have his school board oust William McAndrew, Superintendent of Schools, from office-after the Superintendent's term had expired. The charge was insubordination; the evidence in the form of certain history books in use at the public schools and alleged to contain "pro-British" propaganda. With William McAndrew out of office it became the business...
...Straton dropped 29 members of his congregation for an alleged "plot" to oust him. Returning from Europe he cast calumny on its capitals and said: "The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth...
...Victorious One, hero of the Young Turks' victorious war to oust the Sultan, has now caught the international itch for concluding peace treaties. Last week, he proclaimed, as President of Turkey, that Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey had signed a treaty of "security and conciliation" with Italy and treaties of "security, conciliation, collaboration and active aid in case of attack" with Persia and Afghanistan...
Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine made the error several years ago of seeming friendly to the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is now dead in Maine, as elsewhere, but the smudge of pitch lasts long. Governor Brewster tried to oust U. S. Senator Frederick Hale in Maine's Republican primary last week. He reminded the voters that Senator Hale voted to seat U. S. Senators-suspect Vare and Smith. But the Hale men reminded the voters of Governor Brewster's onetime Klannishness. Senator Hale was renominated by a margin of some 30,000 votes...
...seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from the Wartime U. S. Emergency Fleet. Some Congressmen had tried to require the Board's unanimous vote, or six-out-of-seven. President Coolidge is anxious to oust the U. S. from the shipping business. To a provision doubling the pay of U. S. merchant mariners who join the Naval Reserve, the President had objected, but accepted it finally, knowing it would please patriots...