Word: unseated
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Later, outside the bus, Mamie slipped her arm around Candidate Harris' waist and made her first solo political speech of the campaign. It would also be a big boost in Mrs. Harris' uphill fight to unseat Democratic Congressman Byron Rogers. "Ladies," said Mamie, "I hope you'll all vote for her. We women have to have a voice in things." The home movie cameras ground away, and people with Brownies worked furiously while Mamie met a dachshund pup named Ike, told him: "Why hello, Ike, I'll tell Ike I saw you today." She shook more...
...turning on local personalities or intraparty feuds or on both. Example: in Pennsylvania's Eleventh District (Wilkes-Barre), Republican strife is undercutting Representative Edward J. Bonin. The trouble began last spring when Republican Governor John Fine moved into his old bailiwick, Luzerne County, in an effort to unseat State Senator T. Newell Wood. Fine managed to beat Wood in the G.O.P. primary, but Republicans lost so much blood in the battle that Benin's campaign developed a serious case of political anemia...
...Manhattan hotel suite Wolfson called a press conference to issue his challenge. He, his brothers and associates, said Wolfson. had bought more than 105,000 of Montgomery Ward's 6,502,378 shares, making theirs the biggest single holding. They planned a proxy fight to unseat Avery and reverse his present tight fisted, cash-hoarding, nonexpansionist policies. Said Wolfson: "Montgomery Ward, as it stands today, is a glaring and notorious example of private enterprise in reverse gear...
...gift from trucking interests and with forging letters used to disprove other Browning attacks. But much of the political sheen had worn off Old Warhorse Browning, 64, whom Clement's forces berated for having "sold out the South" at the 1952 Democratic convention by voting to unseat the Virginia delegation. Clement, still the nation's youngest (34) governor, seemed to impress the voters with his oratorical spellbinding and the record of his first two years in office...
After a careful inspection of the Michigan political scene, politicos saw no one who could beat Soapy Williams. In the senatorial primary, Blair Moody seems a good bet to beat McNamara. But even Michigan Democrats doubt that Moody will be able to unseat Republican Senator Homer Ferguson in November...