Word: ouster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Walker. The admission of Professor Moley's testimony following the ominous conference between Referee Seabury and Governor Roosevelt cast a pall over Tammany Hall. Nor was the pall entirely dissipated by Governor Roosevelt's dismissal of ouster proceedings against Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker urged by the City Affairs Committee (TIME, May 4 et ante). The move was expected by most observers in view of the impending investigation of the entire municipal administration by a legislative committee under Referee Seabury (TIME, April 6). Tammany wanted a more ornamental exoneration of the playboy Mayor than it found...
Crain. Meantime began the first public hearings of ouster proceedings urged on Governor Roosevelt by the City Club against Mayor Walker's District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain. Presiding was Samuel Seabury, also Referee of the city's longlived police and judiciary investigation, also counsel for the legislative inquiry (for which the Legislature last week voted a second $250,000) into the municipal administration...
...Appointed John William Davis as special counsel to prosecute its ouster suit against the Federal Power Commission...
...would deal with both cases just the same. But after Mr. Kresel had grilled him in secret for many an hour, he emerged nervously tugging at his collar and asking: ''Where can I get a drink of water?" Friends pleaded with him to resign rather than contest ouster proceedings...
...present position with 22 bakery plants and $44.575.000 assets the Ward company, particularly since the deaths of Charles A. Ward (February 1930) and William Breining Ward (February 1929) has been unprosperous. Last week alarmed stockholders, headed by Edgar Palmer of New Jersey Zinc Co., organized an ouster movement to replace the present management with a new directorate of which George Kenan Morrow of Gold Dust Corp. would be chairman. The regular stockholders' meeting is scheduled for the second Thursday in February, but the Morrow faction was attempting to arrange a special meeting in which they hoped to secure control...