Word: impeach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Next day Governor Hoffman cautiously admitted that he had known about the Wendel matter for some time. While New York and New Jersey police and U. S. Department of Justice agents moved to investigate Wendel's story that he had been kidnapped and tortured, public outrage boiled over. "IMPEACH HOFFMAN," screamed the Trenton Evening Times in a front-page editorial. "It is up to every citizen," roared this Independent sheet, "to demand Hoffman's impeachment and the jailing of all the political mobsters who are obstructing justice and defaming the name of the State...
...harbinger of ruin and decay, Governor Johnson nominated his own Secretary of State, James H. Carr, 32, youngest Colorado official in history. He asked the Assembly to impeach and remove Mr. Carr from office. Secretary Carr, a dapper, toothbrush-mustached flashy dresser, hired as his attorneys Frederick E. Dickerson, Denver Democratic leader, and George Evans, friend of Colorado's rural Legislators. He attended the House hearings sipping milk for an ailing stomach. The story told in court against...
...cake-baking contest which he staged. After seven months study of the law, he was a lawyer, wangled himself a job on Louisiana's Railway Commission, and began building up a political following. He made the Governorship in 1928. In short time an effort was made to impeach him, but in vain. He "reached" 15 Senators, enough to forestall his ousting, and from that time on no one in Louisiana could stand against him. After he had himself elected to the U. S. Senate, he refused to go to Washington until he could arrange to leave Louisiana bound...
...picture of the sequence of events that led up to and followed the Civil War. For them armed conflict began with the guns at Fort Sumter and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. For post-war developments they think of Lincoln's assassination, the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson, the scandal of carpetbag rule in the South. Generally accepted without question is the historian's characterization of Reconstruction as "The Tragic...
Huey Long has always blamed Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana for the abortive movement to impeach him as Governor in 1929 (TIME, April 8, 1929, et seq.). He has hated the old city of Alexandria since some of its citizens rotten-egged him during a political speech last year. Last week the vindictive Kingfish caught up with one old enemy by laying a tax of 5? per barrel on oil refining within the State and disposed of another with a bill ousting all Alexandria's elected officials, giving him power to replace them...