Word: ouster
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...that he would not be readmitted to historic old Turkey. Robert officials were confident last week they could get him reinstated. Dean since 1922, Historian Fisher was ousted in 1924 because he was supposed to have made uncomplimentary statements about Turkey to a party of tourists. Later the ouster was rescinded, the Ministry confessing it had misunderstood...
...with its portraits of former Governors was solemnly hushed. Governor Roosevelt, as judge & jury, sat behind a huge flat-topped desk, flanked by legal aides. Before him, looking small and subdued was "Jimmy" Walker, the first Mayor of New York ever to be summoned to the Capital to answer ouster charges.* To one side sat elderly Samuel Seabury, a faint smile on his wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous...
Hoover managers had only one worry: Governor Roosevelt had shrewdly called New York's Mayor Walker to Albany to answer ouster charges on the day of the President's speech, thus creating front-page news competition for the Republicans' party...
Last week in Albany Governor Roosevelt was presented with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating Tammany corruption (TIME, June 13 et ante), Mayor Walker opened his defense with an attack. He charged that Republicans had instigated the inquiry "to divert public attention from the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the nation." He accused Mr. Seabury of "malice, slander, rancorous ill-will," of conducting...
...ouster move might have died away had not Mayor Key infuriated organized labor in his attempt at municipal economy. He accepted a low bid for the construction of an administration building at Atlanta's airport. Labor leaders, protesting that the wage scale was too low, got the City Council to pass a measure adding $4,300 as a workers' bonus. Mayor Key, determined to retrench, vetoed it. The Atlanta Federation of Trades picked up the Drys' recall petition, pushed it hard enough to secure last week's election...