Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts managed only by a bare majority to oust the Hertzog Government and lead South Africa into war in 1939. But his Government was committed not to send troops outside the continental borders. Last week, by a vote of 75-to-49 in the Assembly and 21-to-6 in the Senate, Smuts obtained Parliament's permission to have South African volunteers participate in the invasion of Europe. He smiled happily when Senator Sarel François Alberts, an Anglophobe veteran of the Boer War, announced that despite his age (70) he was ready...
...every part of Teheran Axis agents egged on the people, sending them down to Parliament to agitate for bread. Orators harangued the crowd, worked it up with cries to oust the government. By evening the mob was marching down the main thoroughfare, Stamboul Street, ready for physical violence...
...leading candidate was still Illinois's Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who, although he disclaimed any campaign on his own part, had the backing of a diversified group that included Old Guardists, ex-isolationists, and those who would like to oust Wendell Willkie from a dominant place in the G.O.P...
...real tussle will be between homespun Senator Johnson, who survived an attempt by Colorado New Dealers to oust him in last week's primary, and Governor Carr, who won the Republican nomination without opposition. Self-educated Ed Johnson, 58, who would have none of the Administration before Pearl Harbor, is dear to the hearts of Colorado's conservative Democrats and has a simple, plain-spoken genius for winning elections...
...Radcliffe Purity League was born in the midst of a minor political revolution in one of the dormitories. An attempt to oust a student Hall president from office resulted in splitting the members of the hall into two warring factions. The political issue soon faded into insignificance. After 32 of the 79 girls living in the dorm refused to sign a petition calling for the removal of their student leader, the majority labeled them the "dirty thirties," a name carrying the stigma of immorality...