Word: expelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power to compel witnesses in such an investigation as this? A. I. Vorys and John B. Phillips represented Mr. Daugherty. They argued that the Senate is a legislative body; its power to force witness is restricted to impeachment cases, election contests and cases in which attempts are made to expel members; if there was power to compel witness to testify with a view to gaining information on which to base legislation, it rested in both Houses, not in either one alone; but the investigation of the Attorney General was not conducted with the avowed purpose of finding a basis...
...Catherine" must not stay. Societies whose fervent patriotism is above question are rallying around the president of the National Security League, who has taken the leadership to expel Countess Catherine Karolyi of Hungary, one time associate of Bela Kun. None know so well as these arch-guardians of national safety by what a slim thread it hangs in these times of deceptive calm. One puff from an inflamed Bolshevik and the whole political and social structure will come tumbling about the ears of hapless multitudes in this peaceful and contented land. A stitch in time will save, not nine...
...Mexican Government thereupon decided to expel Mr. Cummins, but Mr. Cummins was not easy to expel; he shut himself up in the British Legation building and would not budge. The Government did not carry out its threat and Mr. Cummins, recalled by the British Government, was allowed to leave the country peacefully...
...Bavarian Diet there was introduced a bill to prevent Jews from occupying Government posts, to forbid them to change their names, to bar them from holding land and to expel those Jews who had settled in the country since 1914 and confiscate their property...
...their guilt, and that it would defeat the ends of justice to make known their names. He offered, however, to turn the entire evidence over to a Committee of the House, if that body stood on its Constitutional right to punish its members for disorderly behavior or to expel such members. The Judiciary Committee of the House decided to await the regular course of justice. Meanwhile, the two members involved came forward and identified themselves. John Wesley Langley, Republican of Kentucky, rose on a question of personal privilege and declared: "A reputable morning newspaper contains my name, and in substance...