Word: ousts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their names brought to four the list of eminent Democrats along the eastern seaboard publicly consigned to purgatory by the President's Purge. The others: Senators Smith of South Carolina and George of Georgia. To slap the latter further down, the White House last week caused RFC to oust, "for political activities," Senator George's stanch supporter. Edgar B. Dunlap, counsel to RFC's Atlanta office...
...burglarized his apartment and stolen documents which later showed up in Detroit and in the Communist Daily Worker. Oblivious to their neglected Ford organization drive, to the disruption sure to accompany further war, the feudists this week proceeded toward a special convention and an attempt by the ousted rebels to oust Homer Martin. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis grimly followed their farrago, continued to consider whether he could & should step in, put some one else in Homer Martin's chair...
...smoothly, but their chief complaint is Martin's disregard of democratic procedure, typified for them by his failure to submit the G. M. supplementary agreement to the membership for ratification. Last week, though Unity leaders disclaimed any part in it, evidence was accumulating of a drive to oust Martin before the U. A. W.'s convention a year from next summer...
...Jane") from an egregious haunt for U. S. tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...
...beloved is Donkin that when the hateful new headmaster tries to oust him, the young folks start a B. U. D. C. (Back Up Donkin Club). Things get pretty tense. The headmaster abolishes the school regatta, and Donkin packs up to leave. Only in the nick of time is he reinstated, and the oldest minx marries the shy music instructor, Philip ("Poop"), who calls his baby grand piano "B. G." For the final curtain Donkin stands alone in his study listening to the boys ("Old Crump," "Bimbo," "Flossie," and their pals) singing Auld Lang Syne...