Word: oustings
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...gassed). He holds degrees from Meadville Theological School, Columbia (cum magnis honoribus), Harvard and Yale Universities. A hardy perennial in Connecticut politics, he regularly runs for the House of Representatives, the Senate or the Governorship, thus far without success. He used to conduct a permanent but unavailing crusade to oust the late J. Henry Roraback, Old Guard boss of Connecticut Republicanism. In between times Mr. L&233;vitt sought unsuccessfully to oust the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. He is also a chronic letter-writer to the New York Times...
...track's electric board. Hot-tempered Owner O'Haca not only defied the order but gave Doorley a bawling out. Thereupon the Racing Division, charging that Steward Doorley had been "intimidated," amazingly ordered the Narragansett Association, in which Mr. O'Hara is a majority stockholder, to oust Mr. O'Hara from his $75,000 job as managing director. Mr. O'Hara roused Superior Court Justice Charles H. Walsh at 4 a. m. to issue a restraining order against the ouster, which Presiding Justice Jeremiah E. O'Connell promptly vacated. Last week the Racing Division...
...doors on themselves and their 22 pupils (grades 1 to 4), pulled down the shades to keep the curious from looking in, and taught in semidarkness. They did not get along badly. Miss Innes conducted the class. Mrs. Bucklyn advised individual pupils. As the town made no move to oust either, the somewhat puzzled pupils continued to get double education...
...badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin was determined to oust both. Although Homer Martin was unopposed for reelection, the Mortimer-Hall faction had been holding caucuses over the week-end to line up a "unity group" to oppose his "dictatorial" objectives...
...Keeffe tried to have the statues removed, to the rage of Sculptor Epstein and esthetes in general. Artist Richard Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy because that solemn body refused to sponsor a public appeal for the statues' preservation, and with all the hullabaloo the move to oust the statues was quietly dropped...