Word: impeachable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the legislative investigating committee finished its work, reported that Governor Horton was virtually a Lea-Caldwell dummy. Fifty of the 99 House votes are required to impeach. By a vote of 71 to 25 the House named another committee to study the investigators' report and from it, if necessary, prepare impeachment articles. Chairman of this committee was Representative Tipton who, a day after his portentous announcement, brought in his first article with more to follow. Described in a 65-page accusation was a Horton-Lea-Caldwell conspiracy "to commit acts for the personal aggrandizement and pecuniary gain...
Leader of the move to impeach Governor Horton was no State legislator at Nashville. He was Democratic Congressman Edward Hull Crump, 65, the white-haired, bushy-browed boss of Memphis, a city which Senator Nye on one of his slush-fund investigating trips characterized as "the Philadelphia of the South." Boss Crump, who rose from harness dealer to Mayor of Memphis and boasts of 14 election certificates, controls the Shelby County delegation at Nashville (three Senators, eight Representatives). He dictated the elections of the Speakers of the House and of the Senate. Tennessee has no Lieutenant Governor. If Governor Horton...
...Mississippi Legislature. When State finances went from bad to worse last winter and voters began to clamor for legislative relief, Governor Bilbo propounded this political proposition: he would issue the necessary call for a special session, provided a majority of the legislators would first sign sworn pledges not to impeach him or any of his executive officers. His offer was loudly scorned by the law-makers who asserted that they would never surrender their constitutional rights to such a "dishonorable proposal...
...House of Representatives has the right to impeach any public official, and if the Power Commission shall be derelict in the performance of its duties, the orderly and constitutional manner of procedure by the legislative branch would be by impeachment and not through an attempt by the Senate to remove them under the guise of reconsidering their nominations...
...Samuel Seabury, longtime Tammany foe. Referee Seabury named small, Austrian-born Isidor Jacob Kresel, 52, to be special counsel for this inquiry. Lawyer Kresel has had ample experience in dealing with unsavory situations. Graduated from Columbia in 1900, he has been assistant district attorney for New York County, helped impeach Governor William Sulzer (1913), has probed insurance irregularities, meat packers, ambulance chasers for State and city investigations. He is counsel for Bank of United States which crashed last fortnight. Policemen. First puddle Counsel Kresel dipped his hand into was the Women's Court. Month ago he held a three...