Word: impeachment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conservatives. By last week, counting their dead in the thousands, Liberal leaders concluded that they had no chance of a fair election. They withdrew their presidential candidate and ordered their followers to boycott the election. Then, still trying to follow constitutional procedures, a Liberal caucus decided to impeach the President in Congress for failure to keep democratic order, and informed him of its intention. Thirty minutes after learning that, Ospina struck...
Fisher cited four points in his claim that the Council had no legal right to impeach him: 1) that Council President William D. Weeks '49 had no right to vote; 2) that he was tried under the rules for a regular Council member, although the provision in the Council constitution making him an ex officio member was unconstitutional; 3) "the proceedings of the Council were against Robert's Rules of Order under which the Council has always operated; and 4) there are no listings of a 'delegate's duties' in the Constitution...
...subject will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole." It is hard to see how it would have been "detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole" if the student body had been given a clear idea of why Fisher was impeached. It might, conceivably, have been detrimental to Fisher. The Council felt that this would have been the case, and that is why the meeting was closed. But Fisher himself said that he did not care if the meeting were closed or not. And even if he cared, the Council...
...Huey made Earl attorney for the Orleans Parish inheritance-tax collector-a $15,000 job he had promised to abolish in order to use the money for a tuberculosis hospital. Earl was soon earning his keep. In 1929, the legislature, infuriated by Huey's browbeating, set out to impeach him. In the midst of the excitement the Kingfish threw himself on a bed and wept. But with Earl's help, he made secret forays and counterattacks. Huey had two methods of persuasion: cash and threats. On the eve of the impeachment proceedings, 15 state senators announced that they...
Born the son of a South Carolina Methodist preacher, once a Pulitzer scholar in journalism, for 18 years U.P. correspondent in Vienna, Best had made some 300 broadcasts for the Nazis. He had demanded that Congress impeach "that paranoiacal paralytic in the White House," sue for peace, and join Hitler's war against Communism and "mankind's abomination and curse . . . namely, the Christ killers, the kikes, the damn hyphen Jews...