Word: ousting
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Kerr attempted to oust FPC Chairman Leland Olds, after loading the Commission with two of his oilcronies, Harrington Wimberly and Burton Bailing. They began a smear campaign to brand Olds as a Socialist, and the Senate rejected his renomination. Meanwhile Kerr railroaded a bill through the Senate which gave the natural gas producers legal protection against the FPC. Truman vetoed the measure, and Congress couldn't muster the necessary 2/3 majority to override the President...
Nevertheless, a G.O.P. ground swell to oust Gabrielson was growing. Many Republicans felt that if the Democrats were to be attacked for corruption, the attacking had better be done by men who did not have to split hairs to clear their own records...
...Last Try. Last month Paul Wagner's supporters made one last try to resolve the dispute in his favor. They persuaded a state legislator to push through a bill to limit the Rollins board of trustees to citizens of Florida, a measure which would automatically oust most of the anti-Wagner trustees. But before Governor Fuller Warren got around to signing the bill, the legislator was persuaded to withdraw it. Then 15 trustees met at the college at Winter Park, reaffirmed their decision to drop Wagner and to appoint Art Professor Hugh F. McKean acting president in his place...
...news to me," Daniel G. Mulvihill, president of the University employees' union, said last night when he heard of the reported move among the union members to oust him. the movement was allegedly begun by a group of Business School maids who were dissatisfied with the union chief...
Ulbricht & Co. predict that they will oust 25% of the party's functionaries, 10% of its rank & file members, be left with a tighter, handier Communist Party. But if Stalin knew what he was talking about, the saddle was still likely...