Word: oustings
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...understood that the action of the well-known professor of ecclesiastical history in resigning was prompted by the alleged move on the part of certain members of the Theological School to oust him following the granting of a divorce to their colleague during the summer. The Corporation refused to take any action on the matter in its last meeting, and Professor Lake's many friends among both professors and students protested vigorously against any such possibility...
...distributed them among 21 vaudeville acts loosely held together by conversations between stage and a lower box, and had six left over for a claque. Producer Brown called the result "super-vaudeville." Actors' Equity Association called it a revue, ordered the 33 Equity members to quit, threatened to oust them when they refused. Last week none had given notice, none had been dropped from Equity, Producer Brown was still filling two houses a day, including Sunday, at prices from...
...order thus to exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
...statement to the press. Paradoxically, though favoring constitutional monarchy, he has remained an absolute monarch because of the reactionary power, wealth and sheer numbers of other members of the Siamese royal family. In Bangkok the sprightly, progressive little King was strongly suspected of encouraging the People's Party to oust his relatives from the enormous number of soft, well-paid jobs they held in Siam's Government. Every member of the Cabinet, for example, was a Prince...
Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...