Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rattles start sounding from Arizona, Montana, Texas, Florida, and other parts of the country, think of us Harvard 'babies'," said Alvin M. Josephy '36, in a letter he sent yesterday afternoon to United States Senator Huey P. Long. This was the first shot in a nation-wide campaign to unseat the gentleman from Louisiana. A small group of students met yesterday to form a plan of attack, and as a result, a letter was sent to 100 American universities. Liberal-minded students were urged to sent "letters or telegrams to the Senate Committee on Elections and Privileges in Washington, protesting...
Every airmail contractor in the U. S. shuddered last week as the fight for control of Aviation Corp. became more & more rowdy (TIME. Nov. 21). Whether the operators sided with the management or with Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, 30% stockholder who was trying to unseat it, the industry was painfully aware of one fact: That the missiles hurled by each side would be picked up by opponents of airmail subsidies, carefully saved until the next Congress convenes, then flung at all air transport...
...Declined (6440-18) to unseat John Hollis Bankhead in favor of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin as Alabama's Senator (see below...
...Voted to unseat Peter Granata, Republican, as Representative of the 8th Illinois District and to seat Stanley H. Kunz, Democrat, in his place. House lineup: Democrats, 221; Republicans, 211; Farmer-Labor, 1; vacancies...
...alleged understanding: Britain and France would be prepared to let Japan keep maximum war spoils in China if Japan would launch an attack upon Russia calculated at least to block the Five-Year Plan and possibly unseat the Communist Dictatorship...