Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against them is good. Their primary slush was enough to make onetime (1919-22) Senator Truman H. Newberry look like a deacon. Their taint gave Democrats and Insurgents an issue, embarrassed even the most regular Republicans. A substantial majority of the next Senate will find it politically wise to unseat them. But Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare have raised the question as to whether the Senate can expel them, because of corruption in the primaries, after they have been approved by a majority of the voters of their own states...
...there will be a bitter fight in the next Congress to prevent the seating of Vare if he is elected, and there is no small likelihood that an effort will be made to put on record Senators who come up for election as to whether they will vote to unseat Vare...
...first ventures in politics were not encouraging. In 1888 he was defeated for State Senator. In 1896 and 1-898 he was defeated for Secretary of State of Indiana. In 1908 his good friend Tom Taggart tried to nominate him for Governor. But other Democrats revolted, trying to unseat Boss Taggart. They deadlocked the Convention, which finally turned to a compromise candidate-Thomas R. Marshall...
...finished; it went right on in politics. Four years later he was delegate-at-large from Georgia to the Republican National Convention that first nominated McKinley. Every four years since then he held the same post, although in 1920, and again a year ago, unsuccessful attempts were made to unseat him. He gradually became dominant in Republican politics in Georgia, where he essayed the dual role of lawyer and dispenser of patronage. All attempts to unseat him were fruitless. He was a very able, rough and terrible debater. Besides, he had the gift of eloquence as only a Negro...
...even this disillusionment could not unseat the nice balance of Comrade Gulliver's judgment. He was able to keep his self-control on realizing that New York Postoffice guards carry revolvers: "What a dreadful idea that we can get a bullet in the throat, not in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transporation of money. Unmoved, he looked upon "railroad terminals . . . monuments to the capitalistic mammon . . . far less artistic than at Berlin...