Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also by the fact that student rebellions had given the college an undeserved reputation for being Red, decided that Frederick Robinson lacked "the human qualities" needed by a college president, asked the Board of Higher Education to do something about it. Still Tammany-controlled, the board refused to oust him. But last June, as the result of new appointments to the board by reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Dr. Robinson's supporters were outnumbered. He applied for a sabbatical year. The college calmed, today is as peaceful as a vacated battle field. When Dr. Robinson offered his resignation last week...
...Gold Coasters, out to oust the Elephants from their second place position, led 6-0 during most of the game, after scoring all their runs off Steve Madey, Eliot hurler, in the first inning...
...bullet-ridden bodies of 14 leaders of the Iron Guard, Rumania's suppressed, German-financed party. No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to oust the Government and set up a Nazi State in Rumania...
Meantime, Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
Although Federal Communications Commission Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch thinks purge is a nasty word, last week he persuaded his commission to oust three more FCC staff men, bringing his purge score to seven. By abolishing FCC's examining division, incorporating the examiners in the legal division under McNinch's right-hand man. General Counsel William James Dempsey, FCC sidestepped civil service statutes and fired Chief Examiner Davis G. Arnold, Examiner Melvin H. Dalberg. Similar action ousted Publicity Man G. Franklin Wisner. But FCC will not be without a pressagent. Marion Livingston Ramsay was borrowed for 90 days from...