Word: impeachably
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...barons of the Great Council in defiance of the mightiest king in the Western world there arose a storm of discussion whose interest has survived the dust of the chronicles by which it was recorded. It was a case of clash of convictions. When Edmund Burke arose to impeach Warren Hastings on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors there was no talk of the pedantry and dry formalism of debate; against the fire of intense personal conviction and the crusading zeal of a diligent investigator even the aristocratic aloofness of the Lords would not prevail. And when Webster...
Oklahoma continued her fireworks (TIME, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Oct. 8). The Legislature wanted to meet to impeach Governor Walton. The Governor shouted his desire to strangle the Ku Klux Klan, at the same time using both hands to hold off the Legislature. He could not do both...
...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...