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Perfunctory was the beating of Conservatives in Quebec in August 1931 by ever-victorious Liberal Provincial Premier Louis Taschereau, grand old French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...
...impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because he would not resign, charged that the Commerce Department was rife with "serious derelictions . . . scandalous abuses . . . improper graft and favoritism" (TIME, June 24). Again Congress did its inquisitorial duty and the Senate Commerce Committee spent three footling days last week investigating the Mitchell allegations...
...Court filed in looking cheerful, particularly Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Stone and McReynolds. By turns the Justices began to read decisions. Justice Butler read one of little public interest. Justice Sutherland read one making news, in which it was held that President Roosevelt had no right to oust a Federal Trade Commissioner without specific cause (see p. 11). Next, more news: Mr. Justice Brandeis declared the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Bill unconstitutional (see p. 15). Then all that news of a newsworthy Court session grew inconspicuous. The Chief Justice announced that he would read the Court's decision concerning...
...Compromised out of court was the suit to oust Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews from Hupp Motor Car Corp. (TIME, March 11). At the suggestion of a Federal judge in Detroit the warring factions settled on a board consisting of one-half pro-Andrews directors, one-half anti-Andrews. Named as president was Vern R. Drum, oldtime Chrysler man who has lately been Hupp's production manager. Meantime in Washington in hearings on the New York Stock Exchange's request for permission to de-list Hupp stock, the Securities & Exchange Commission continued to quiz Promoter Andrews on his involved...
...been pulling the number two oar in the Drury shell for the past ten days, was unable to report yesterday and there is a possibility that he may not be able to row Saturday. Reports today will determine whether Austin will be allowed to return and oust Oliver Scott, who took over the position Saturday...