Word: oustings
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...Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...
...upset reapportionment legislation in Missouri, Minnesota and New York; approved the jailing of Alphonse Capone and the fining of Harry M. Blackmer, oil runaway, for contempt of court (see p. 12); invalidated Oklahoma's law to limit ice dealers by "convenience & necessity" license; denied the Senate's right to oust George Otis Smith from the Federal Power Commission after sending his confirmed nomination back to the President...
...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...
With such arguments by counsel and witnesses, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, on behalf of her three children,* tried in District of Columbia court last fortnight to oust her estranged husband. Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, as co-trustee of the McLean estate. He was, she charged, the millstone around the bowed neck of the Post...
...shipping foods. About 180,000 refrigerator cars costing $3,500 each (against $5,000 for a 2 car) are only a part of the railroad industry's great investment in ice facilities. To be as successful as its sponsors hope, 2 would have to replace all this, also oust mechanical refrigerators...