Word: oustings
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...laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells, who was on the set most of the time Things to Come was in production, was so delighted that he promptly declared he would concentrate on writing for the screen hereafter. He now considers films "the greatest art," expects them "to oust both opera and stage...
Irate minority stockholders in two investment trusts made attempts in Manhattan last week to oust their respective managements. A stockholders committee headed by Stockbroker Sanford Griffith and Thomas E. Brittingham Jr. of the famed Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wanted to turn out the management of Fourth National Investors, a $22,000,000 trust run by Fred Y. Presley, who also promoted and is still president of National Investors, Second National Investors, Third National Investors. There was little complaint about Mr. Presley's investment record, which is better than the sorry average (TIME, March 9). Though questioning management relations between...
...directorship within two years. In 1934 President Glenn Frank, apparently worried over Spears' reputation as an advocate of "bigtime" football, used his deciding vote on the board of regents to up Meanwell, irascible basketball coach, to the position of Wisconsin's athletic director. Alumni indignantly swore to oust Meanwell within two years...
...British Royal Family. Therefore in Athens the restored King showed himself anti-Italian at once, soon forced out Dictator Kondylis, ordered a general election. The Field Marshal swore that if his parliamentary henchmen did not win a majority, his military henchmen would lead a coup d'etat to oust King George. Last week the Kondylis cohorts had not won their majority, but Kondylis' sudden death did not disrupt the cohorts. Almost as though they had known Death was about to strike, the busily intriguing officers, some hours before the field marshal was stricken, were conferring with General Pitsikas...
...with major movements explained by cartoons of Chief Justice Hughes, the Blue Eagle exploding, Haile Selassie with shield and spear, etc. Most exciting moment in Editor Munger's journalistic career occurred in 1934 when his appendix burst while he was writing the story of a proxy fight to oust Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery...