Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They were being told to buy war bonds. Who was the master of ceremonies? Jimmy Walker. I can remember twelve years ago when the whole nation breathed a sigh of relief when the then Governor Roosevelt of New York State had the courage to put on the pressure and oust Walker as mayor. And now Walker is telling me and several thousand others to buy war bonds. Out of 7,000,000 people they have to pick...
Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...
Lewis was there to oust Murray from the vice-presidency he had held for 20 years in the Mine Workers' Union. The formal basis for the ouster: Murray had accepted other offices. (He is the new president of C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers of America.) Real reason: they had finally parted company over John's political beliefs. This moment was Angry John's vengeance...
...certainly an eye-opener for us, for until then I always thought that this demand to oust us from the sunny Southern California was nothing but a dirty scheme by some of our local politicians. But I now realize the awful necessity of us getting out of the coast as soon as possible and I do believe that it is our duty to move inland so that we may relieve the Army the burden of keeping watch over us when it must concentrate its full power on guarding the important coast. This is a fight to finish and our fate...
...white of the A.F. of L. to turn their collars around last Thursday at their Seattle convention and come out for a "program of wiping out racketeering and crime wherever it may exist" in their union! And how sincere of them simultaneously to oust George E. Browne, President of the Stage Employees and Motion Picture Employes Union now on trial in New York for extorting $550,000 from four motion picture companies, from the A.F. of L. Executive Council...