Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After watching Henning operate for many months, Wirtz decided he wanted a man of his own choosing, someone more compatible. But George Meany considered John Henning a perfect union representative in Government. As soon as he heard of Wirtz's plan to oust Henning, foxy old George arranged dozens of phone calls to top U.S. unionists to tell them of Henning's plight. He also saw to it that the story was leaked to the press. Suddenly, thousands of union men's protest telegrams began to bombard the White House-some even came from ships...
...letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers and was a factor in convincing Brazil's military to oust Goulart. A day after he fell, Doña Amélia did even better, drawing a record 1,000,000 people for a "March of Thanksgiving...
...vital help from a small but powerful group of young insurgents, including Michigan's Gerald Ford, who wanted a more aggressive, positive leader. In Halleck, they got all the aggressiveness they could stomach, and very little positivism. Last week Jerry Ford and his rebels were out to oust Charlie Halleck...
...that potentially violent environment of change and challenge, Dean Burch's refusal to step down has now reached absurdly tempestuous proportions. Moderates have begun to realize that if the oust-Burch campaign gets out of hand, the result might alienate G.O.P. conservatives-perhaps even precipitate a third-party movement. Thus, the moderates were hoping that Burch might be eased out with a minimum of fuss and a minimum of bruised conservative feelings...
...election was specifically designed to oust Jagan, whose People's Progressive Party is overwhelmingly supported by Guiana's 295,000 East Indians. To guard against a repetition of the 1961 election, when Jagan won a parliamentary majority with only 42.6% of the vote, the government introduced a system of proportional representation under which he would have had to win a clear majority to return to power. Since no other party is willing to join a Jagan government, the British hoped that the election would result in a coalition headed by Attorney Forbes Burnham, a moderate, pro-Western leader...