Word: impeacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker, I rise to a question of constitutional privilege. On my own responsibility as a Member of this House I impeach Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors...
...themselves before a Copenhagen magistrate last week. The young woman deposed herself to be Fru Else Wille Bang, 32, not domiciled with her husband since seven months after her marriage, for a period (after the separation) a student of singing in Paris, now of no occupation. She wished to impeach herself for the murder of her invalid mother, the Baroness von Dueben, and at the same time arrange for exculpation...
...bales) Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo would no more call a special session for cotton than he would call one last spring for the State's fiscal troubles (TIME, May 4). His sine qua non for any special session: a written promise from every legislator not to impeach him. Declared Governor Bilbo last week: "I'll see the Legislature through 40,000,000 hells before I will call it without a pledge from each member...
...hospital, his condition was so serious that police were unable to question him. Miss Cranmer was arrested, said she was not sure who fired the shot. When checks were found in her possession showing that she was on New Jersey's payroll, a movement was launched to impeach the wounded politician. Declared Mrs. Yates: "I know it was only a temporary affair, just as a bad little boy strays from the home hearth...
...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...