Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compact, fast-stepping minuscule minority seized control, persuaded the delegates to kill every anti-Red resolution Mr. Carey suggested. Carey-men on the floor flopped helplessly. The radicals argued that Carey had too many jobs, climaxed the session by getting the electricians to short-circuit Carey and oust him from the presidency...
...national director of organization, did. From a hotel room Haywood proceeded to pull strings. There were plenty to pull. Big and lusty as it was, U.A.W. was split by factionalism. On one side were Walter Reuther and Dick Frankensteen, who were determined to purge U.A.W. of Communists and oust wavy-haired, black-browed George Addes from his job as secretary-treasurer. On the other side was saturnine Mr. Addes and some shadowy figures in dark corners...
Last fortnight the Radical Party held a convention in Santiago's Teatro Municipal. At stake was not only the fate of the six ousted members, but also the whole broad question of Party policy; whether the Party should swing left or right-appease the Communists in the Popular Front or cooperate with the Socialists and oust the Communists. As the 600 delegates strolled into the hall one evening there was a sound of swiftly running feet in the Calle Huérfanos. Somebody shouted "Los Nacis!" Shots rang out and three delegates fell...
After 28 years, without interruption, during which Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague has dominated Jersey City, its voters last week went to the polls with another opportunity to oust him as mayor. The issue was whether they would elect Republicans who made charges of confiscatory taxes, fraudulent elections and municipal corruption, or whether they would again have Hague, who now promises to defend his constituents from the totalitarian menace. To no one's surprise they chose beaming Boss Hague-his tellers counted it as a 100,703-to-13,425 victory...
...Dayton Company or any other public utility company." This week Morgan, Stanley had not decided whether to take the matter to court. If SEC is right, and Morgan, Stanley owes its utility business to J. P. Morgan's holding company affiliations, the disruption of the relationship will oust Morgan, Stanley from its No. 1 position in the utility underwriting field...