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...town, forbade street gatherings. Citizens promptly bunched in front yards near the schools, kept up their yelping. But as the week ended the tide turned strongly against the strikers. A State court held that in firing & hiring the board had acted strictly within its rights, denied a petition to oust its majority members...
...profession than any other outsider, sent word to the convention of the American Bar Association in Milwaukee last week that he was appointing a special committee to scrutinize the morals of lawyers, accountants and special agents who argue tax cases before the Treasury Bar. He advised the conventionites to oust voluntarily from their association out-&-out crooks, over-sharp connivers and boasters of special influence. To hammer home a point that has made a bad smell in Washington for many a year, he sent to the Bar convention his youngish assistant general counsel, Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...Bismarck the Langers still occupy the Executive Mansion from which Governor Ole Olson has not bothered to oust them. The Olson family continues to live and work on the Olson farm near New Rockford...
Last week a sub-committee of the House Military Affairs Committee after secret hearings, called upon Secretary of War Dern to oust General Foulois for "dishonesty . . . gross misconduct ... inefficiency . . . inaccuracy . . . unreliability . . . incompetency . . . mismanagement.'' Prime charges: ¶He said he was "quite certain" his men could fly the mail, following cancellation of private contracts. ¶He "told a lie" to the committee, saying that Army mail pilots had from 30 to 60 hours night flying experience, whereas some who crashed had as little as 8 hours. ¶He persistently violated the law in buying planes by direct negotiation instead...
...upwards of $5,000.000,000 per year on millions & millions of voters, then Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the political wizard his friends make him out. Yet Republicans in Congress continue meekly to vote for most of the appropriations the President requests for fear that, otherwise, their constituents will oust them from office. Last week, however, Republican Representatives to a man rose and screamed at the sting of a political hornet the like of which few of them had ever known before...