Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn Heights's red stone Church of the Holy Trinity. Young Melish's busy left-wing activities (e.g., he was chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision on the well-loved father...
...Minister Melish's activities as chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and busy associate of several other organizations cited as Communist fronts, had spurred the church's vestry to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe for his father's ouster (TIME...
...with Franco frightened Spaniards in exile into something they have never before been able to achieve-unity, or at least a semblance of it. In Paris, the Spanish Socialists announced that they had reached an agreement with their political enemies, the Spanish Monarchists.* They called for Franco's ouster and a democratic regime in Spain. Unfortunately, ousting Franco was far more easily said than done...
...nearby Victoria County, a jury trying Vail for Felix's murder freed him in an hour and 35 minutes. Later he was acquitted of killing Domingo. The third case never came to trial. Back in Beeville, 21 leading citizens got up a petition for Vail's ouster. But six months later, Vail was reelected...
Life Begins at 59. The Army's ouster of Getulio Vargas two years ago was Mangabeira's invitation to pick up, at 59, the political career cut short 15 years before. Since then, he has worked fast-guiding U.D.N., helping to write Brazil's new constitution, getting himself elected governor of Bahia...