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...November 6, 1952, about my experiences with the Peron regime, there is one mistaken reference that certainly needs rectification. Explaining the reasons why my citizenship was revoked by the rubber-stamp Peronista congressional majority in June, 1951, your reporter says that I "urged the United States intervene and oust Peron." This statement is entirely false. I never urged any country to intervene to oust Peron, since that is--and should be--the business of the Argentine people exclusively. In fact, it was only the Peronista press--which has slandered me in every conceivable way--that attributed to me such...
...action came as a result of his statements at a Lowell Institute "America At The Crossroads" broadcast from the Lamont Forum Room last June when he charged the Argentine government was "riddled with Communists" and urged the United States intervene and oust Peron. It was the first time in Argentina's 426-year history a citizenship had been taken away...
...election time. He is building a new state prison, he has virtually outlawed capital punishment. But when he had a chance to prove that he really believes in progressive penal methods, he turned his back and whimpered "what can I do?" This was when his Correction Commissioner attempted to oust the reforming woman superintendent of a state woman's prison, Miriam Van Waters. Massachusetts needs new roads, and Dever is building new roads. But he is doing so at an incredible price, five times the nation's average, and in a period of inflation when there is no unemployment problem...
Curry's appointment materialized swiftly after a majority of the city councillors banded together to oust the aging reform manager John B. Atkinson who began bitterly fighting council policies. "As a matter of fact," recalls Curry, "when a councillor first suggested that I take the job, I thought he was joking. It was beyond my wildest dreams of fancy." Now the man who once tutored undergraduates in languages is the $20,000-a-year manager of one of the largest cities in Massachusetts, a position nationally respected and studied by students of government everywhere...
Whether, in this interval, Heselton threatened Brown with a point of order to oust both delegations altogether--which was possible because of their fardy registration or whether it was a matter of simple persuasion. Brown withdrew his point of order after supper. With five minutes allotted to each side, the Committee began examination of the case...