Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcing in Manhattan last week that he and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend had joined forces to oust President Roosevelt from office, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith declared: "Last Saturday night Dr. Townsend and I stood under the historic arch in Valley Forge and vowed to take over the Government...
...Container met price cut with price cut, depending on big sales volume to make money. President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...
...sociologist to realize what potential value it has in governmental affairs. True, sociology has been in bad odor because of many newly-arrived uninformed, often unscrupulous Washingtonites who have masqueraded under its colors. A primary duty, then, of any university is to send forth fully-equipped men who can oust political pretenders from their positions, fakers who apply the term "social" to any personal cerebration whether it is for the public welfare...
...laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells, who was on the set most of the time Things to Come was in production, was so delighted that he promptly declared he would concentrate on writing for the screen hereafter. He now considers films "the greatest art," expects them "to oust both opera and stage...
Irate minority stockholders in two investment trusts made attempts in Manhattan last week to oust their respective managements. A stockholders committee headed by Stockbroker Sanford Griffith and Thomas E. Brittingham Jr. of the famed Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wanted to turn out the management of Fourth National Investors, a $22,000,000 trust run by Fred Y. Presley, who also promoted and is still president of National Investors, Second National Investors, Third National Investors. There was little complaint about Mr. Presley's investment record, which is better than the sorry average (TIME, March 9). Though questioning management relations between...