Word: unseating
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...John Greig Latham (Nationalist) took a drastic step last week. He resigned, handed over leadership to a politician of broader popularity, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, former Acting Treasurer of Australia. He, by attracting to the Nationalist cause waverers and independents, may be able to roll up a vote that will unseat Labor...
...Senator Borah, another close friend of Alice Longworth, has said that if Ruth McCormick is elected he will vote to unseat her because of her excessive campaign expenditures. Mrs. Longworth may now present her real gifts. She may use her political influence, of which the country has for so long heard so much. She may soften this decision of the frugal gentleman from Idaho...
...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...