Word: ouster
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...fantastic episode in inter-Allied economics preceded his ouster. French speculators had transferred millions of francs to North Africa when the rate of exchange was 100 to 150 francs to the American dollar. Upon French advice, the U.S. authorities reduced the rate to 50 francs to the dollar-enabling the speculators to turn a profit of 100 to 150%. Before the U.S. Treasury finally awoke and forbade such speculation, several huge fortunes were amassed by this trading in invasion dollars...
...square-jawed Ferd Eberstadt (TIME, March 1); the Palace Guard that engineered his ouster was for the moment appeased. For Boss Donald Nelson war production looked 20% rosier than it did the week before. And Charles Edward Wilson, who had suffered under WPB's divided authority and mind, at last could consolidate his position...
Lewis was there to oust Murray from the vice-presidency he had held for 20 years in the Mine Workers' Union. The formal basis for the ouster: Murray had accepted other offices. (He is the new president of C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers of America.) Real reason: they had finally parted company over John's political beliefs. This moment was Angry John's vengeance...
Said Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, one of the Council members who opposed the ouster: "Huxley is in America with the backing of the British Council. . . . His dismissal will spread considerable alarm and despondency among professional workers because it discourages people from doing work for the Government...
...York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned...