Word: ousters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Attention was first drawn to the restrictive clause by a Student Council investigation two years ago. Last September's convention offered the first opportunity for changing the organization's laws. Several of the Eastern chapters, including that of the University of Connecticut, faced ouster by their college authorities in the event the clause were not removed...
...fought in warlords' armies, became a Communist Party member in 1926. After Chiang Kai-shek's bloody 1927 ouster of the Communists from the Kuomintang, Liu made his way to Moscow, where he studied guerrilla tactics and Far Eastern politics at the Red Army Military Academy. When Russian troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi...
Many a paper tried ingenious ways to make stories seem exclusive. The Newark Evening News front-paged Reporter John O. Davies Jr.'s recital of "an interview two years ago" in which MacArthur "partially explained [to me] some of the reasons behind his sudden ouster at Washington early this morning." Manhattan's Daily News marveled at the "almost uncanny accuracy" with which the News's Astrologist Marion Drew, as long ago as December, had prophesied that "MacArthur would encounter strong criticism in March and April." But after all the dailies had had first crack at the story...
...Melishes of Brooklyn were back in the news. Ever since the ouster two years ago of Rector John Howard Melish and his far-leftish son and assistant, William Howard, Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity has been without a full-time rector. Meanwhile, nine anti-Melish vestrymen (whose petition to Long Island Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe led to the ouster) have been replaced in parish elections. Last week, by a vote of 119 to 11, the congregation handed the new vestrymen the name of the man they want for rector. The name: William Howard Melish. Further...
...think that is true," said Bill Fulbright. Later, the Senator from Arkansas made a hurried alteration in the Congressional Record. He had meant to say a majority of Republicans favored Acheson's ouster, he explained...