Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failing to side with either man, the report in effect called for the ouster of Chavez. In application, however, it probably will mean final confirmation of his right to the seat. The report this week goes to the Rules Committee and then to the Senate floor. There, barring a miracle, Dennis Chavez should be able to muster enough of his colleagues' votes to keep his seat. This prospect was clear to ex-Cavalryman Hurley. Growled he: "The Grand Old Party apparently now hasn't the guts that God gave a goose...
Behind locked doors last week, directors of Manhattan's Equitable Life Assurance Society met to perform an unpleasant job: the ouster of Chairman Thomas I. Parkinson, 71. They did not have much choice. State Superintendent of Insurance Alfred J. Bohlinger, who had brought out a report charging Parkinson with "nepotism" in handling the society's affairs (TIME, Nov. 9), threatened to get a court order to remove Parkinson. After twelve hours of debate, the board found a face-saving way to satisfy the state's insurance superintendent, allow Parkinson to get his retirement...
...Premier's words were more than diplomatic bluff. All week at the Palazzo Chigi, the Foreign Ministry, government officials were predicting dolefully that Pella might face ouster when Parliament reconvenes later this month unless he can produce promise of progress on Trieste, the most emotional issue in Italy. Already, Pietro Nenni's Red Socialists, yearning for a chance to swerve Italy from the West to neutralism, were baying that Pella's pro-U.S. policy is a failure and that Italy should dump him and change course...
...wonder that the bishop sees an investigating committee in every vestry." (Retorted Bishop Oxnam: "Congressman Jackson should know that there is no congressional immunity from the Biblical injunction: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.'") Jackson and Velde wanted the House to call up the ouster resolution and shout it down, but G.O.P. leaders still hoped to let it die a quiet death on the Rules Committee's shelf...
...thus backed up her father's statement to reporters that life in Moscow for American diplomats is like being interned by the Nazis in 1941 except that they can walk about the streets. It was this statement that caused the Russians to demand Kennan's ouster...