Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started as Long's private secretary. He made her Secretary of State, later State Supervisor of Public Accounts, handling millions, her records immune to audit. Her power with the Kingfish arose from a personal relationship. No sooner was he dead than more potent lieutenants began planning to oust her in favor of Long's brother Earl...
...Louis v. Carnera and Louis v. Levinsky fights which preceded it, has far outdistanced the Garden as a matchmaking organization. That this sad state of affairs is due to the way the Garden has been managed by President Kilpatrick is the contention of Board Chairman Hammond who hopes to oust him at next week's stockholders' meeting...
Which course it will take, and how, will depend upon whether Colonel Hammond has enough proxies to oust Colonel Kilpatrick at next week's meeting...
Perfunctory was the beating of Conservatives in Quebec in August 1931 by ever-victorious Liberal Provincial Premier Louis Taschereau, grand old French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...
...impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because he would not resign, charged that the Commerce Department was rife with "serious derelictions . . . scandalous abuses . . . improper graft and favoritism" (TIME, June 24). Again Congress did its inquisitorial duty and the Senate Commerce Committee spent three footling days last week investigating the Mitchell allegations...