Word: unseat
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...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...
...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...