Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier mounted the tribunal. Silence of death fell upon the Senate. In clear tones, he defended his fiscal policy, accused former Governments of causing disguised inflation by contracting loans and exhausting the lending resources of the country. He complained of a conspiracy to oust him from office and ended on the note: "I have done my duty. In judging me, you must recognize that I have done my duty." He stepped from the tribunal...
Whose Right to Oust? It seems strange that a country should live and grow under a great ordinance for more than a century and a quarter and at the end of that time not be sure what parts of that ordinance mean. Yet such is the case of the U. S. For example, in the case of amendments to the Constitution. That document says that amendments be- come effective when adopted by Congress and "ratified by three-fourths of the States." Apparently rejection does not count; only ratification. But suppose that a state ratifies and then reverses itself?either before...
...oust Trotzky from the War Council...
From Copenhagen came the news that the War Lord had offered to leave Moscow, provided that the Triumvirate would reinstate his dismissed , adherents, oust General Frunze, the acting War Lord...
...back to salvation. The death of Richard Scholz, its late president, gave the opportunity for the business interests of Portland, entrenched in the regents board, to deflect the college from its doubtful toying with ideas. The new president, Mr. Norman Coleman, was leader of the war time movement to oust the I. W. W. from mines and lumber camps. He is a stalwart defender of the political and social dogmata of the chamber of commerce, and accepts as his standard the business man's stamp of O. Keness...