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...June 6 Kuhara had plenty of courage and supporters. On that day he presented Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai with an "ultimatum" proposing a, Nazi-like party with a razor-edge program: 1) break relations with Britain and the U. S.; 2) declare war on China, so as openly to oust all rival interests; 3) produce thousands of new airplanes, tanks, submarines. Kuhara chose for his slogan, a peculiarly un-Nazi cry which originated in a cutthroat political campaign in Milwaukee in 1867, but which has since been immortalized as a typewriter-testing sentence: "Now is the time for all good...
Kirkland and Lowell have no more engagements with each other in any sports, but concluding games in hard and soft ball can conceivably swing the balance either way. Lowell is a decided underdog in the close battle because nothing it can do will oust Kirkland from first place if the Deacons simply win their last hard ball game of the year with Adams...
...been further alleged in letters of graduates that a partial cause of the change is Dean Hudunt's desire to oust Professor Hubbard, current head of the department...
Like most bankers, Amadeo Peter Giannini has no use for the New Deal. Unlike most, he has no use for Wall Street either. His quarrel with Wall Street dates from 1931, when, in a famous proxy fight, he came out of retirement to oust Elisha Walker (now of Kuhn, Loeb) from the chairmanship of Transamerica Corp., which controls 495-branched Bank of America, fourth largest U. S. bank. His quarrel with the New Deal began in 1938. Late that year SEC, threatening to delist its stock, charged that Transamerica's registration statement contained "false and misleading statements...
Loudest caterwauling came from New York, where Tom Dewey and New York County Chairman Kenneth Simpson came within an ace of saying what they thought about one another. A longstanding, bitter, personal enmity came out into the open. Said Deweyman Warren B. Ashmead, Queens County committeeman trying to oust Mr. Simpson as national committeeman: "There had to be a showdown sooner or later." Said Mr. Simpson: "I am now of course relieved from any further favorite-son support of Mr. Dewey...