Word: ouster
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...preliminary judgment in his favor, Bishop Adam and his lawyer obtained the assistance of a police bomb squad early in July, attacked Platon, drove him forth. But they overlooked the fact that the judge had granted a stay of judgment to hear Platen's argument; hence their ouster was illegal...
...decision; now let him enforce it!'' At last, in 1835, the Cherokees did cross the big river, some in peace, some sword-pricked; and consoled themselves with $5,000,000. John Marshall's theory of "domestic dependent" nations was too cunning. The swashbuckling President's ouster was sad, fairly humane, inevitable. And the ancient commentary upon these elaborate Indian treaties remains: "Law cannot make facts nor unmake them...
...Denver, it is announced that a recount of the votes cast in the recent election for Judge of the Juvenile Court gives Judge Ben B. Lindsey a majority of 35. The recount was made necessary by ouster proceedings brought against Judge Lindsey by Royal R. Graham, his defeated opponent (TIME, Apr. 13). Judge Lindsey had first been declared elected by 117 votes...
Said The Times, London, apropos of the Calif's ouster: "Of all vast changes wrought by the war, the downfall of Habsburgs, Romanoffs and Hohenzollerns, the resurrection of ancient States and the rise of States unknown before, the evolution of novel forms of government and the emergence of new ideas and new feeling among mankind, no single change is more striking to the imagination than is this; and few, perhaps, may prove so important in their ultimate results...