Word: ouster
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When Amherst's trustees ousted Alexander Meikeljohn (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq.),when Governor Huey P. Long forced Thomas W. Atkinson out of the University of Louisiana, the issues were plain between Reaction and Liberalism. In the La Follette-Frank ouster, the spectacle presented was that of one celebrated Progressive steamrollering another. Had Phil La Follette been a Tory Governor, the outcry from U. S. Liberals would undoubtedly have been prodigious, for along with his smooth exterior and the careful polish which has removed all trace of his native Queen City, Mo.. Glenn Frank has. with facile...
...getting more difficult to believe that it was a political issue between the Governor and the President, and that the former manipulated the Regents into voting the ouster purely on grounds of differing political philosophy. Certainly if he did, he was misjudging his man when he agreed to have President Conant come out, snoop around, and say that he didn't. If that deal goes through he will be really investigated, and no mistake...
...himself out of one of the most embarrassing situations that even he has ever managed to blunder into. In a statement that is an insult to the intelligence of any but a Curley-appointed, democratic judge, the buffoon of Beacon Hill staunchly avowed that his intentions behind the proposed ouster of all judges over seventy were inspired by an utterly altruistic desire to relieve poor old men "with failing strength" from performing "arduous duties...
...Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should not allow such an attack on his WPA. The War Department undoubtedly felt that General Hagood had been talking out of turn too long. Republican Senator Metcalf hung full responsibility for the Hagood ouster on President Roosevelt by declaring on the floor of the Senate, and it was not denied, that the General's case had been discussed at a recent Cabinet meeting at the White House. To take the curse of politics off its action, the War Department resorted to the extraordinary...
...name of his rumpsters. Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out. "NO!" the convention roared back at startled Mr. Green. The roll-call vote on a proposal to withhold action on Mr. McDonough's ouster until a compromise might be settled this week was 18,092½ -to-10,602, the worst reverse the Federation's electorate has given President Green since he took office eleven years ago. Few days later, however, President Green happily announced that the disputants had agreed to have the matter settled...