Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers did not satisfy Ryan. He got permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to take the first move in a proxy fight in which he hoped to oust Sosthenes Behn. Ryan estimated that he, his family and his friends already had behind them over 1,000,000 shares of the 6,399,002 shares of l.T. & T. stock. Behn, who always has a weather eye out for squalls ahead, suddenly changed his tack. Last week he offered to talk things over with the Ryan group face to face...
...address their meeting. "'E's a Liverpool man," was all one pimply-faced steward could say about him. Others knew that Murphy had come down from Merseyside the day before, after having helped organize a wildcat strike whose aims were to tie up Liverpool and oust the rather tame leadership of the National Union of Seamen. '"E knows what we want," an oiler told a reporter...
...nobody's surprise, greying Roberto Cochrane Simonsen joined his fellow Senators last week in voting to oust Communists from public office.* An influential member of anti-Communist President Dutra's party, he barely won his seat last January over Communist Candido Portinari, Brazil's greatest painter. His own anti-Red views are well known. Besides, Industrialist-Economist Simonsen is a top-rank spokesman for São Paulo's bustling industry, and Communists are bad for business...
Conservatives, long weary of seeing a Marxist preside over the Chamber of Deputies, had worked up the strength to oust Jose Antonio Arze, the green-eyed ex-Williams College professor who is also boss of the Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.). That very evening, when the President entertained the Cabinet and others at dinner, the two P.I.R. ministers chilled the turkey by handing in their resignations. Next day Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Guachalla, whom Hertzog nosed out of the presidency last January, by only 279 votes, also called it quits...
Charles S. Keevil, Jr., who played number five on the Amherst squad and won the N. E. title last spring, came back from the short end of a set-point, 5 to 3 first set to oust Ashley, 7 to 5 and 6 to 1. Last summer, Ashley was part of the victorious doubles team in the University tournament...