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...Bilbo, right or wrong, the question of how to unseat The Man will devolve on the Senate's 51 Republicans. Their problem: whether to refuse Bilbo a seat on charges that his election was "irregular" (which would take only a majority vote), or seat and then attempt to oust him on charges of "moral turpitude" (which would require a two-thirds vote...
John Albert Carroll, 45,husky, humorless, handsome ex-Denver policeman, who was one of the few Democrats in the nation to oust an incumbent Republican (red-faced Dean Gillespie). An ardent New Dealer, Carroll went to night school for six years to be admitted to the Colo rado bar, became Denver district attorney and an A.M.G. major in Italy...
Schlesinger is most noted for his book, "The Age of Jackson," in addition to having published his sumpia thesis as an undergraduate. Dennett is from the World Peace Foundation and Eliot has had experience in Congress. Allen and Mrs. Sharp are trying to oust Edith Nourse Rogers and Joseph Martin, respectively...
Even slim Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president and now secretary-treasurer of the C.I.O., knew that his fight to oust the Communist-line triumvirate could never amount to more than a test of strength for future battles. On the second day Carey made his bid: a resolution to bar Communists from union office. It never came to a vote. By a landslide majority of 2,827 to 679, U.E. delegates substituted a plank guaranteeing "every member all rights and privileges . . . including the right to hold any position . . . regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality, race, creed or political belief...
...Francisco's earnest, able Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham made a grateful announcement: "My one objective will be to further the interest of the city I love." The effort of his political enemies to oust him through a recall vote (TIME, July 15) had failed. The city, by a score of 105,742 to 73,673, last week decided it loved its mayor...