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...bare 12% of the house. He has, however, a great & good friend: Per Albin Hansson, leader of the 90 Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish dog. Irt 1926, in similar circumstances, His Majesty made the Great Templar Prime Minister for the first time, and Tail Ekman then wagged Sweden...
Others complained that the new system released girl operators, added to unemployment. With a whoop the Senate unanimously adopted the Glass resolution to oust the dialers and replace them with the old "number-please" instruments...
...revolt spread to the House where North Carolina's Representative Abernethy introduced a resolution to oust the 700 dial instruments on that side of the Capitol...
...case to oust Governor Kohler from office was inspired by Republican Progressives led by Philip LaFollette, brother of Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, as part of their struggle against Republican stalwarts for political control of Wisconsin...
...stockholders meeting was a warm event. United sent its Directors Joseph Ripley (National City Bank) and Frederick W. Jackson (lawyer), their pockets presumably stuffed with proxies with which to oust the NAT management. But no one save Messrs. Ripley and Jackson knew what portion of the 650,000 outstanding shares they held, for they voted only one qualifying share each...