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...credit. In one swoop he angrily fired 179 State College officials & faculty members, remarking: "Boys, we've just hung up a new record!" So discredited was he that he refused to call a special tax session of the Legislature because its members would not first promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner. On the walls of the Governor's office hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton, with MIKE CONNER written on its skull. In 1932 "Sure Mike...
...Business, his partisans decided to hold the special session, regardless of Ole Olson. The House, topheavy with Langermen, quickly met and organized, but the Senate was stalled by the lack of quorum. William Langer appeared before the House, cried "I am still your Governor," invited its members to start impeachment proceedings against him-proceedings that were certain to end in a whitewash. The House promptly obeyed, 63-10-9. Later the House was expected to impeach Ole Olson, this time in all seriousness...
Died. Henry Hollis Horton. 68, one-time (1927-33) Governor of Tennessee; after a long illness: in Chapel Hill. Tenn. In 1931 an attempt to impeach him. charging connivance with Publisher Luke Lea (now in a Federal jail for misapplication of funds), was voted down...
...stand before the high court of public opinion and I impeach the solid majority of the Board of Education. . . . I impeach them in the name of youth. I impeach them in the name of American traditions. I impeach them in the name of this great city and its ambitious and enlightened people...
...know," began the diminutive politician, once jailed, an admitted bribee,* who fired 179 State college professors in one swoop and refused to convene the Mississippi Legislature for fear it would impeach him, "you know, I'm a trouble shooter. If anything goes wrong with this Farm Relief Act, I'm supposed to know about it right away. I keep in touch with the way people are thinking. I'm going to read all kinds of newspapers and magazines...