Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep his three papers running. Soon afterwards his San Francisco paper, the Illustrated Herald, suspended publication, and his Los Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent. The same day that word of the suspension came to the press, a despatch from Paris announced that General Pershing, arriving in France to inspect war monuments, cemeteries and battle fields, had motored up from Cherbourg to Paris with his young friend of war-days...
...second amendment was proposed by Senator Norris of Nebraska. He charged that the President had exerted pressure on the Tariff Commissioners; that in the case of David J. Lewis, who was appointed from Maryland, President Coolidge had demanded his resignation in advance so as to be able to oust him if he voted against the President's wishes. Senator Norris also spoke of onetime Commissioner Culbertson, now Minister to Roumania: "Culbertson had on the one hand a threat held out against him that he was perhaps going to be removed from office because it was claimed that he had violated...
...want you." To this phrase there was no dignity as that attached to "What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install his new invention and to give it proper publicity Bell was obliged to go lecturing. In Manhattan he got Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations...
...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...