Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...brief, they asked Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson to summon a special session for Jan. 4 that they might: 1) provide funds to oust the tick from Texas steers; 2) provide funds to oust the hoof and mouth disease from the same; 3) "amend the highway laws of this State to such an extent as will, in the judgment of the Legislature, sufficiently protect the interests of the people and promote the establishment of an efficient system of public highways...
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...
Despatches from Syria spoke of preparations by General Sarrail (TIME, Aug. 17) to launch a great French offensive against the Druse tribes, which have been fighting valliantly to oust the French Mandate and set up a pan-Arab Government at Damascus...