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...Declined (6440-18) to unseat John Hollis Bankhead in favor of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin as Alabama's Senator (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No. 1 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...this passionate outcry is an effort to unseat the government. The civil guards are neither a political nor a social influence but a police force. They will be dealt with accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Since Castilblanco | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...Bulgakov has been previously warned that his profound cerebrations will unseat his reason, that he has ''a little devil in his mind." A prime symptom: His astounding fondness for a caged orangutan which he subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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