Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Koundouriotis was intimately acquainted with ex-Premier Eleuthorios Venizelos both during and after the War. In exile he went with Venizelos to Crete to help organize a revolution to oust King Constantine and to bring Greece into the War on the side of the Allies. On two occasions he had acted as Regent of the country, a position which he had just exchanged for the Provisional Presidency...
...flourishing of Baptist parishes in New York City. He had to combat dissension on all sides when he first took up his work there, because he preached the religion that reached directly at every member of the congregation. Secret meetings of prominent vestrymen were held in an effort to oust him, but he had become so firmly entrenched, and the congregation had increased in size so remarkably, that instead of Dr. Straton leaving, the wealthy vestrymen were forced...
...economic convention was opposed by the Socialists who have consistently opposed nearly every item of French policy (Ruhr, etc.), of which M. Theunis has been the most ardent and consistent supporter. But the Socialists have only 68 votes. In order to oust M. Theunis they needed the votes of the extreme Flemish Catholic party. This they finally received-not so much on account of the specific economic convention as on account of general anti-French feeling which has been growing in Belgium as a result of the failure of French policy to bring good cheer...
...object of the move was said to be that the Croatians intend to go to Belgrade (the capital), join the Opposition there, oust Premier Pashitch, demand new elections, revise Balkan policy, "kill" the Italo-Yugo-Slavian treaty over Fiume (TIME...
...serious, but he was indisposed for several days. The Regent? Admiral Koundouristis requested M. Kafandaris, Royalist, quondam Minister of the Interior to form a Cabinet to succeed the Venizelos Government; Premier Venizelos resigned, on his doctor's advice. Despite rumors of a Republican coup détat to oust the great Premier, it was stated that his control of the Greek situation was prerequisite to the maintenance of friendly relations with foreign power. The Premier was to take a rest, but it was categorically affirmed that he would remain in some other capacity helmsman at the Greek tiller...