Word: impeaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hornet's nest around Governess Ferguson and her husband "Jim." It was understood that Jim had picked the members of the Highway Commission, and he was known to have attended their meetings. So it was felt he should share the blame with them. Last week, with talk of impeachment in the air, two of the three Highway Commissioners resigned. So they cannot be impeached; neither can the Governess' husband, because he holds no office. The only persons left to impeach were the remaining Highway Commissioner and the Governess...
Meanwhile, Congress undertook to impeach President Johnson, the principal charge being violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The impeachment proceedings failed, largely because there was a loophole in the wording of the Act. Shortly after, Stanton resigned...
...wants Nixon impeached," Bond assured the meeting, "and by God, we'll impeach...
...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...