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...starts to make things hum. He demands and gets the resignation of his Secretary of State. He addresses an army of unemployed, enlists them in a civilian workers corps. He gets rid of all his Cabinet when they plot against him. When there is a motion in Congress to impeach him, he adjourns Congress, makes himself dictator. Molested by a tycoon gangster, he places his secretary at the head of a corps of Federal police in armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence...
...Debated appropriations bills. ¶ Tabled (342-to-11) a second resolution by Pennsylvania's McFadden to impeach President Hoover. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Pennsylvania's Cochran to void President Hoover's eleven orders for Government consolidation...
...Republican, planted himself in the House well, squared his stocky shoulders, spoke these words. Behind him on the rostrum slouched Speaker Garner. Before him several hunched members drowsed through routine legislation. The strident McFadden voice continued: "On my own responsibility as a member of the House of Representatives, I impeach Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors and offer the following resolution. . . ." The House, shocked as if by electricity, sat bolt upright. For 20 seconds there was a stunned silence. Not since 1868 when that other Pennsylvanian, lame Thaddeus Stevens, made charges against Andrew Johnson...
...inimical to the welfare of the United REPRESENTATIVE MCFADDEN He followed Thaddeus Stevens. States . . . unlawfully dissipated financial resources . . . injured the credit and financial standing ... his declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk finished reading, North Carolina's Pou, senior...
...Impeach Hindenburg!" Probably in 1914-15 der feldmarschall had no time to notice that he, his Kaiser and the General Staff were being attacked every day by one Clara Zetkin, editor of a Socialist sheet (she did not join the Communist Party until 1919) which demanded "Proletarian Peace."* Without troubling der feldmarschall, policemen arrested Frau Zetkin in 1915 and kept her under indictment, though she was finally released. Last week she tongue-lashed thus: "Without consult ing the Reichstag, political power in Ger many has for the moment been grasped by a Presidential Cabinet which is the servant of trust...