Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marine Interlude. The 1915-34 occupation by the U.S. Marines reversed the trend, gave Haiti hospitals, telephones and political peace. The paradoxically gentle side of the Haitian nature emerged. From the Marine departure to President Paul Magloire's ouster last year, Haiti had only four Presidents, a modern record. But as the occupation memory faded, the technical services and the civic sense declined, and chaos reclaimed the land. Seven regimes have ruled in the past six months...
...them, crowded in under the Fifth Amendment shelter. Even when the committee established that Hutcheson is a member of the same A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council that ousted Teamster Boss Dave Beck for crawling under the Fifth, the finger-drumming witness declined to say whether he had voted for the ouster (he did). Hutcheson, it then became apparent, had his own rationale for personal behavior. Asked if he is familiar with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s code of ethics, which states that Fifth Amendment witnesses have "no right to-hold office in his union," Hutcheson replied...
Still voicing defiance, Beck told the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee its charges--which could lead to ouster of the Teamsters Union from the labor federation--constituted "malicious and unfounded slander of our membership and our official family, local and national...
WASHINGTON, April 29--George Meany, AFL-CIO president, today told Dave Beck, beleaguered Teamsters Union head, that his suspension as an AFL-CIO officer stands despite Beck's claim his ouster was an illegal "nullity...
Beck wrote AFL-CIO President George Meany he considers the suspension without effect. He also said the federation's ouster move against the Teamsters Union itself could not proceed until more specific charges were made...