Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly the militant Women's Committee of Louisiana filed an ouster petition against Senator Overton with Vice President Garner...
...court. The State of Pennsylvania, which plans some day to make a park of Ephrata, argued for ousting the trustees on the ground that assets have been mismanaged and the Ephrata charter (1814) had been violated by the suspension of religious services. Last week a county court approved the ouster, put "The Sharon" into the hands of a receiver whom the local citizenry heartily approved. He was Dr. John F. Mentzer, a 71-year-old country doctor who during the past 50 years ministered without charge to Seventh Day Baptists...
...that he would not be readmitted to historic old Turkey. Robert officials were confident last week they could get him reinstated. Dean since 1922, Historian Fisher was ousted in 1924 because he was supposed to have made uncomplimentary statements about Turkey to a party of tourists. Later the ouster was rescinded, the Ministry confessing it had misunderstood...
...with its portraits of former Governors was solemnly hushed. Governor Roosevelt, as judge & jury, sat behind a huge flat-topped desk, flanked by legal aides. Before him, looking small and subdued was "Jimmy" Walker, the first Mayor of New York ever to be summoned to the Capital to answer ouster charges.* To one side sat elderly Samuel Seabury, a faint smile on his wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous...
Hoover managers had only one worry: Governor Roosevelt had shrewdly called New York's Mayor Walker to Albany to answer ouster charges on the day of the President's speech, thus creating front-page news competition for the Republicans' party...