Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pusey replied that "there are people as guilty as I of trying to interpret what the Faculty's feeling was. What is clear is that the Faculty had a clear choice to oust ROTC from campus," the President continued, "and it was voted down with a resounding thud. I think it's important that ROTC be kept here. I personally feel it's terribly important for the United States of America that college people go into the military. I do think that the government in Washington remains our government. And the military arm of that government remains...
...tribal council was left in an untenable position no matter who won. Since 1924, when Congress decided that American Indians are U.S. citizens, Navajos and other Indians have been both tribal citizens and Americans. Now their rights as members of each group had been thrust into conflict. To oust Mitchell would leave legal aid agencies powerless to help individual Indians fight tribal governments for their rights. On the other hand, if the tribal council were forbidden to say whether white men could come or go on Navajo land, as their treaty specifically guaranteed, their basic rights to their reservation might...
Risking the wrath of the elders, the lawyers expanded their activities whenever they were able to. How could Navajos get a square deal in tribal courts, they asked, when tradition banned lawyers? The war dance really began when the lawyers helped organize a recall election to oust a reservation community's school board...
...strong showing, this has made the country bosses weak and open to any Democrat who looks like he can win in the 1969 state elections. The New Jersey NDC, while spending much of 1963 fighting the bosses, will use the country bosses' support in 1969 before trying to oust them in later party fights...
...gains. In Kentucky, for instance, the liberal coalition now controls about one-fourth of the Louisville party organization. The party in Minneapolis and St. Paul was taken over by student activists and suburbanites in the McCarthy drive--they have not let go, despite Hubert Humphrey's recent pledge to oust the "kooks" from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party...