Word: unseating
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...finished; it went right on in politics. Four years later he was delegate-at-large from Georgia to the Republican National Convention that first nominated McKinley. Every four years since then he held the same post, although in 1920, and again a year ago, unsuccessful attempts were made to unseat him. He gradually became dominant in Republican politics in Georgia, where he essayed the dual role of lawyer and dispenser of patronage. All attempts to unseat him were fruitless. He was a very able, rough and terrible debater. Besides, he had the gift of eloquence as only a Negro...
...even this disillusionment could not unseat the nice balance of Comrade Gulliver's judgment. He was able to keep his self-control on realizing that New York Postoffice guards carry revolvers: "What a dreadful idea that we can get a bullet in the throat, not in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transporation of money. Unmoved, he looked upon "railroad terminals . . . monuments to the capitalistic mammon . . . far less artistic than at Berlin...
Here politics came upon the scene. For U. S. Senator Rice W. Means and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton were suspended from the Klan for partaking in an alleged plot to unseat Locke and make Senator Means Grand Dragon...
...Perry W. Howard, a Negro, secured the seating of his delegation in preference to that of M. J. Mulvihill, Republican National Committeeman from that State. The most spectacular contest was over the delegation from Georgia. "Colonel" Henry Lincoln Johnson, who is National Committeeman from Georgia, brought a contest to unseat the so-called J. L. Phillips faction. It did not seem that he would succeed. Being a lawyer-a brilliant and able lawyer, according to Negroes who know him-he presented his own case. He paced up and down before the Committee for an hour, carrying on a running fire...
...government machinery thus to increase the profits of a few business men explains why the Republicans spent $8,100,000 in the 1920 campaign, compared with Democratic expenditures of $2,237,000. It explains why they refused to unseat Senator Newbury who clearly violated the Corrupt Practices Act. Out of this vicious tariff lobbying and out of campaign expenditures amounting to millions, have inevitably grown the insidious abuses of which the Harding administration has been guilty--the oil leases; land frauds; the Verterans Bureau scandal; secret tax refunds; illegal liquor withdrawals; stopping the prose cution of "friends" of the administration...