Word: oustings
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...induced Mr. Zerk to agree to stay out of Stewart-Warner's business. For Mr. Zerk happened to be the fourth largest stockholder (5,000 shares) and had no intention of watching his investments depreciate without a murmur. Last spring Mr. Zerk launched a ferocious proxy campaign to oust the management, charging them with pocketing unconscionable fat bonuses, with gross inefficiency and general lack of business acumen...
...Anti-Long group, led by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. '36, that has been carrying on a fight to oust Huey Long from the United States Senate, withdrew from the sponsorship of the Liberal Club last night...
When what the world supposed to be the firm of Lenin & Trotsky was disrupted by Lenin's death (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924) it was no easy task for Secretary Josef Stalin of the Communist Party to oust Trotsky and make himself Dictator...
...civic Washington's greatest problems is starlings, small insectivorous birds first brought to the U. S. in 1890 from England to combat sparrows. One Civil Works relief project during the past two months was to oust great crowds of starlings from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged...
...sooner had this been done than a deafening hue & cry arose in nearly every court in the State. The constitutionality of the enabling legislation was challenged. Commissioner Van Schaick's rehabilitation plans were attacked at every step. "Protective committees" mushroomed on every side, tried to oust Commissioner Van Schaick in favor of Federal bankruptcy trustees. Individual investors demanded the property underlying defaulted mortgages. The mortgage business in New York threatened to become a lawyer's holiday...