Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ouster stirred up a storm. From Tokyo U.S. Ambassador John Allison cabled a protest. Author James Michener (Tales of the South Pacific, Sayonara) wrote in a letter to the New York Times: "It is precisely as if Richard Nixon and Adlai Stevenson were to be charged with subversion. Mr. Ladejinsky is known throughout Asia as Communism's most implacable foe and about the only American who has accomplished much in actually stopping the drift of all Asian farmers to Communism. To fire him for security reasons is truly incredible...
...week's end, Ecclesia published a letter of resignation from Father Iribarren. Dated September 23rd, it remained unpublished until U.S. correspondents began filing reports of the Iribarren ouster...
...third of Australia's voters are Catholics, Labor politicians realized that the Evatt move was an open invitation to political suicide. But Evatt and his supporters pressed on. The crisis engulfed all Australia as Evatt named names, and Catholics hit back with a resolution calling for his ouster as parliamentary leader...
Diplomatic Front. Arbenz' ouster complicated diplomatic efforts to deal with the civil war and-more widely-with Guatemala's drift toward becoming a Russian satellite in the U.S.'s backyard...
Died. Robert N. (for Newton) Denham, 68, onetime (1947-50) general counsel of the NLRB, whose ouster in 1950 climaxed a running three-year battle between Republican Denham and President Truman over the interpretation and jurisdiction of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...