Word: impeach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that last week ranged from village hall to statehouse. Incensed that the board would ignore "developments that have been made in reading during the last 50 years," State School Superintendent Angus Rothwell threatened to withhold state aid, which comes to about $10,000. Taxpayers threatened to impeach the school board. Principal Raymond Oestreich attacked the McGuffey's Readers because of "antiquated grammar, misspelled words and poor punctuation." One teacher refused to use it. And state legal advisers, who want to keep church and state separate, objected to McGuffey's "sectarian references...
Tentatively admitting the John Birches to his petrified forest, Columnist Westbrook Pegler, 67, applauded their "Impeach Earl Warren" slogan ("I think this is an impractical idea but a worthy emotion"), but noted that he had personally "abstained from joining the society because it might not be far enough to the right." Equally abstemious, for different reasons, was another vintage journalist, California Rancher Thomas M. Storke, 84, who for 61 years has been editor-publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. To counter Big Bircher Robert Welch's $2,300 college essay contest on reasons why Warren should be impeached...
...determine whether its president has in fact transcended the bounds of taste, judgement, or honesty. In doing so it will by implication draw what it considers the proper line between a Council officer's official actions and his political activities. If Phillips has crossed this line the Council should impeach him. There is no cut and dried formula for deciding a question like this; the Council has to treat it as a question of fact, rather than as a general legislative proposition. But the inquiry itself will give the Council a chance to state clearly for the record what...
...those people got on the phone and kept on yelling that I am a Communist because I give money to the school." Society members in Nashville, Tenn., started telephone campaigns to warn homeowners that some of their neighbors were suspected Reds. The project with current top priority is the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, and activities in a dozen cities range from the "spontaneous" circulation of petitions to a rash of letters to newspapers, and a HELP IMPEACH EARL WARREN banner strung across the main street of Pampa, Texas (and taken down by the police a few hours later...
...powers to permit him to cut off the sugar, or 2) to postpone any import of sugar whatsoever until New Year's Eve, thus allowing only the tiniest trickle of Dominican sugar into the country. If the Congress decided that either action was illegal, grumped Ike, "let them impeach...