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...picture is derived from the monster novel by Theodore Dreiser. In his two tomes, Dreiser impeached not so much a pipsqueak libertine as the social order which produced him. Dissatisfied because the cinema failed to impeach similarly, Dreiser tried and failed to secure an injunction against its showing. But there are other and more important qualities which Dreiser got into his book and which Adapter Samuel Hoffenstein, light-versifier and onetime theatrical pressagent, and Director Josef von Sternberg failed to get into the picture...
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...