Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Pressagent Edmund Chester. Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista's cronies had given "one more lunch in his honor," Pearson might have written that "Batista also led the revolution against Spain in 1868 and started the War of Independence...
...Communist, he'll do until a better one comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok to succeed "Wild Bill" Donovan as Ambassador to Thailand. There he made fast friends with Premier Phibun Songgram, who himself drives a swift Mercedes...
WHEN Russia's NiKITA KHRUSHCHEV stepped off a plane at Belgrade's Zemun Airport and spouted his slavering apology for the 1948 ouster of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, TIME'S editors pulled a quick switch and scheduled Marshal TITO for this week's cover. At hand was Cover Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's latest portrait of Tito. Prophetically, the portrait shows the great stone face that Tito turned on the Russian delegation as Khrushchev made his abject recital. Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell, who watched the incredible scene on the newly asphalted apron...
...deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson, he retire at his peak. Avery again refused...
Clark has been at odds with Conant ever since he accused the latter of dictatorial tactics in connection with his ouster as a member of the West German system. When his four-year term as chief justice expired a few months ago, Clark was unable to secure a reappointment. Clark apparently believes Connant was responsible for his dismissal and subsequent inability to gain reappointment...