Word: impeaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposedly on the recommendation of William Gibbs McAdoo, an undistinguished lawyer associated with the Treasury Department was appointed Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Federal Judges are appointed for life subject to one qualification, "during good behavior," and subject to right of the House of Representatives to impeach and the Senate to convict a Judge of "treason, bribery, high crimes Or misdemeanors." The new Judge, George W. English, took residence in East St. Louis with his wife, his son. There he became intimate with one Charles B. Thomas, who had been a local judge. The eastern Illinois district...
...example, got Representative Weaver of North Carolina?the kind of man that can make a jury weep. Interminably, passionately, he went through the record to show that there was no proof that Judge English had committed any crime. It is more serious, said he, to impeach a man than to convict of crime. Without substantial proof of crime, there can be no impeachment. He pleaded with the House to remember "the wild pulsations of a father's heart," not to "tear the ermine from this, old father," to remember that...
Measures Defeated: 1) A much bruited bill forbidding Occidental dancing in Japan. 2) The Government bill reducing land taxes. 3) Several Opposition bills to impeach Premier Wakatsuki, who thankfully retired from the session to rest and pursue yet another of his hobbies: the writing of poetry. Once he wrote: I take a leaf from Yuan Hsien* Who even in poverty enjoyed sports; A lingering thought to Chen-pin,* Who, with high ideals and thoughts. Always refrained from self-laudation. As a statesman of fiery zeal I admire Clemenceau ; As a gentle-souled Premier, I respect Gladstone...
...Texas, where they pay a $500 bonus for catching a rich man violating the liquor statutes, where the "unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...
...Problem. But for what could the Governess be impeached? No evidence or charge had been made public that the Governess or her husband had received or were to receive any of the road company's excessive profits. As the Legislators talked it over last week, they were not sure that they wanted to impeach Mrs. Ferguson, but if they could not "clean up" the highway situation in any other way, they thought they might impeach her for "incompetence" or "negligence...