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Word: overthrowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Government hereby calls the entire Finnish people to a determined struggle for the overthrow of the tyranny of hangmen and war provocateurs. The reactionary, avid plutocracy which in 1918, aided by the troops of foreign imperialists, drowned democratic freedom of the Finnish toiling people in a sea of blood, transformed our country into a White-Guard hell for toilers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...limit to patience" and asking the Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people to overthrow their government and "escape the fate of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brazen Provocation | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Russia's outrageous invasion of Finland...is a direct consequence of Hitler's Russian policy last August, and it will increase the growing unrest in Germany, which some day may result in the overthrow of the Hitler regime," Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, declared Saturday in the Guardian's fourth weekly broadcast over WEEI...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAY SCOFFS AT THREAT OF RUSSO-NAZI TREATY | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...said he, recognizing that some innocents are bound to be hurt. Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman introduced a bill to bar from Federal pay rolls all members of all organizations affiliated in any degree with the widely affiliated Communist Party (or with any other outfit which would overthrow the U. S. Government). Carried to its logical extreme in public and private employment, this form of retribution would turn up millions of witches in the besplattered League alone. A. L. P. D. has some 20,000 active members, claims 7,500,000 more through unions and assorted organizations whose leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

History. Karl Marx believed and taught that the industrial proletariat was inherently revolutionary, that its numbers and miseries would increase, that its conflict with the capitalist class would intensify, that eventually it would be able to overthrow the "bourgeoisie," and that, after the revolution, classes would disappear in a new kingdom of freedom, and government would "wither away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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