Word: ousts
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...Francisco was in the middle of a muddle and a strange political campaign. On July 16 the city will go to the polls and decide whether to recall Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham. Some San Franciscans wanted to oust him because his administration had put through a 3? fare rise on the city's rattletrap trolley lines. To add to the doctors' confusion, when they first hit town the trolleys were not even running. They were strikebound...
Somebody dynamited William H. Johnson's back porch in 1944, but that did not dislodge him from office. Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge Superintendent of Schools was a hard man to oust-so long as Boss Kelly stood for him. The accusations of the National Education Association (TIME, May 28, 1945) couldn't do it, though their charges were serious: that Johnson transferred 600 teachers to reward his friends and punish his enemies, for a juicy fee tutored teachers who wanted to be principals, and terrorized teachers by a network of spies...
Unless the democracies found a way to oust Franco without letting the Communists in, the son might prove wiser than the father...
...political dopesters' books, Pennsylvania is the key state in the 1946 elections. Key Man of G.O.P. hopes in Pennsylvania is Governor Edward Martin, who is out to oust Democratic Boss Joe Guffey from his U.S. Senate seat. G.O.P. chances, already high thanks to Martin's popularity, were enhanced last week by the party's choice for the Governorship race: able Attorney General James H. Duff...
...this activity was an effort on the part of Democrats to oust Republican Governor Earl Warren and his protege in the Senate, young Bill Knowland. While Senator Knowland seemed vulnerable if hit sufficiently hard, no Democrat in his right mind would yet predict shrewd, able Governor Warren's defeat...