Word: impeach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of Oklahoma between its Governor, its Legislature, its Ku Klux Klan, its Supreme Court and its National Guard is very much at odds with itself. The Legislature desired to impeach Governor Jack Walton for attempting to be " dictator " by putting the state under martial law to suppress outrages attributed to the K. K. K. The Governor had not called a special session, but the Legislators decided that they had the right to meet under the bill of rights in the State Constitution...
...inquiry is evidently seeking out the Kluxers. But large sections of the press and Oklahoma's legislators rose up to fight the Governor. Though a military censorship was placed on several newspapers, the legislators were not so easily controlled. They began moves to assemble the Legislature in order to impeach the Governor for usurpation of authority. Governor Walton threatened to jail them if they...
...said that if the Legislature succeeded in meeting it would have a sufficient K. K. K. majority to impeach Mr. Walton. He was in a ticklish position for all his six-foot, well-built frame. Oklahoma vibrated with the war drum...
...Resolution to petition Congress to impeach Chief Justice Taft for accepting $10,000 annuity from the Carnegie Fund. Passed...
When Attorney General Daugherty secured a temporary Federal injunction against the striking shopmen in the great railway strike last Summer, all the Railroad Brotherhoods vowed revenge. They got up a movement to impeach Mr. Daugherty for malfeasance in office, but it collapsed without proving a single charge against him. Still they kept up a guerrilla shop strike on many roads and fought the issue with the best legal talent at their command, hoping to prevent the Attorney General from making the injunction permanent. Now-just as their case was about to be heard-the lawyers for the shopmen have...