Word: unseat
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Since 1882, there has been no serious attempt to unseat the stockholders' proposed slate, Morrill said yesterday. In 1964. Sheldon Dietz '41, owner of the now defunct Club 47, put forth a six-man slate of architects. His proposal aborted, however, since he did not have the architects' consent and failed to get anywhere near a quorum...
...them down. Strategically, their position resembles that of many G.O.P. liberals during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign. Thus, while Kennedy Operatives Stephen Smith and Theodore Sorensen have endorsed Humphrey, they are expending most of their energy on New York Democrat Paul O'Dwyer's effort to unseat Republican Senator Jacob Javits. When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds for such antiwar Senate candidates as Oregon's Wayne Morse, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, and Ohio...
There were also new reports that Moscow was trying to unseat Dubcek; the result was yet another delay in the planned conference between Czechoslovak and Russian leaders in Moscow...
...pact's military secrets. He did not lose his army rank, and his job was due to be abolished anyway under coming reforms. Nevertheless, his removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like to see unseat Dubček. For Prchlik was the general who had prevented a January coup by army units loyal to ex-party Boss Antonin Novotný, the Stalinist that Dubček bounced from office...
...First adopted in the U.S. by the city of Los Angeles in 1903, the recall has been used to topple two mayors there and to unseat city officers elsewhere. Only North Dakota has ever ousted a Governor-Lynn Joseph Frazier, in 1921, because of a bank scandal. The same electorate sent him to the U.S. Senate the very next year...