Word: shakeup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet adopted a characteristic Bratianu policy: suppression of freedom of the press. Twelve pro-Peasant newspapers had their entire editions confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials," said a close friend of Dino Bratianu with grim humor, "will have the duty of seeing that the election, which we will soon hold, results in a Liberal victory...
...sixth editorship in the last twelve years. In turn he was night managing editor of the New York Herald, assistant managing editor of the Tribune, managing editor of Cyrus Curtis' Evening Post, next of the World, then of the Post again. Few weeks ago a Post shakeup shook Managing Editor Renaud out (TIME, Sept. 18). Promptly he was hired by Eugene Meyer, new publisher of the Washington Post, who may not return to a member bank until two years after his resignation as governor of the Federal Reserve Board last...
Major Generals in command of Army Corps areas seldom stay long in one place. Their routine is to spend four years at home stations, three in foreign posts, then home again. The War Department wants them to get familiar with all U. S. fortifications. In a general shakeup of corps commanders last week the department announced these shifts...
...Quarters, Red Top, Connecticut, June 8--All the Harvard crews had a light day today, taking short rows in the morning and afternoon. Conditions on the Thames were so good that Coach Whiteside would probably have had time trials if the temperature had not been so high. Following a shakeup yesterday, the Freshman crew again rowed in the revised seatings, which appear to be permanent. The seatings now are: stroke, Lake; 7, Atherton; 6, Beane; 5, Prout; 4, Kernan; 3, Clark; 2, Walcott; bow, Farley; cox, McVickar...
...Navy Department last week announced a wholesale shakeup of 24 commands, due to age limits having been reached and tours of duty ended, to take effect throughout the year. Most important was the appointment of Vice Admiral William Harrison Standley, 60, to be Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy's No. 1 tactical post. At a date not yet named he will succeed Admiral William Veazie Pratt, who reached retirement age March 1. President Roosevelt wants Admiral Pratt to stand by until final disposition of the Geneva Disarmament Conference...