Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their support, he said. Others had done that and failed. Instead he would ask "republicans of good will," like Briand, to enter his cabinet on their personal responsibility, without impliedly pledging the support of their parties. With this cabinet he would face the Chamber of Deputies and they might unseat or sustain him as they chose. In effect, M. Tardieu slapped down before all France the following cabinet list, virtually defied the Chamber to indicate that they are not good...
...stood by Taft-- though he came from the insurgent West--but confidently predicted that Taft was the only man who could win and that he would be triumphantly reelected. The same regularity has been evident in other important crises in his party's history. In 1912 Curtis voted to unseat Lorimer; but in 1911 he had voted to seat him; and that, considering the mandate of his party nationally and the mandate of his party locally, was, from the point of view of regularity, about fifty-fifty. Similarly, in 1927 Curtis voted for the McNary-Haugen bill and exhausted every...
...prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet's telephone operator would be to lose still more "face." Therefore the Premier stood adamant when a motion of censure against the Government was introduced. If the Chamber wanted to unseat him?so be it! But MM. les Deputés quickly came to their senses, supported the Cabinet, 351 to 110. Soon the Government, magnanimous, prudent, ordered Mme. Montard released "provisionally...
...campaign funds investigating fever is seizing the Senate. With the new session just begun, it seems almost as if each half is trying to unseat the other half. However, there are at least three Senators whose right to seats is being seriously questioned...
Senator-elect Gould is entitled to take his seat on Dec. 6 in the 69th Congress, and continue to serve through the 70th Congress. Thus, the slim Republican control Of the next Senate is still safe. However, Mr. Redman threatens to fight to unseat Mr. Gould, while at the same time, the Democrats are contesting the seats of Senators-elect Vare of Penn sylvania and Smith of Illinois...