Word: oustings
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...against the party's supporting any Ministry whatever unless a majority of the Ministers should be Socialists. This was taken to mean that M. Herriot could not depend on the Socialists to support a Cartel Ministry with himself as Premier. The Cartel was declared split and probably impotent to oust M. Briand...
...Signer Nicodemi's two plays this season. Stolen Fruit (TIME, Oct. 19) was the fair first and this is the bad second. It is a play of mother sacrifice for an unnamed son of her husband, whom she came to hate when the intruding offspring grew up to oust her own firstborn from his inheritance...
...famed Garde Républicaine band; within the huge pile fidgeted Gaston Doumergue, Protestant President of France, Aristide Briand, anticlerical Premier, lesser officials. They were trapped out in state uniforms, ribbons across chests, decorations pendent. They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics...
...floor of the Senate. Mr. Nye is reckoned as a progressive if not an insurgent. The Republicans, aside from legal questions, would like to seat him, fearing that not to do so might antagonize the Northwest and lead to Republican defeats there next year. The Democrats would like to oust Mr. Nye, to make trouble for the Republicans, but the case is complicated by precedent. In 1914, in a similar case about an appointee from Alabama, the Republicans voted against seating him; the Democrats voted to seat...
They concluded with the suggestion that, if the Governess failed to issue such a call before Dec. 10, they would construe her failure to act as a refusal of their plea to oust the tick...