Word: overthrown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chief reason for the flight of Vasil Radoslavoff was his connection with fox-bearded German Tsar Ferdinand. In 1923, Peasant-Prime Minister Stamboulisky was overthrown by a coup d'état and assassinated while trying to escape. Disgust with Stamboulisky brought renewed respect for Radoslavoff. People forgot that he had been prosecuted for corrupt practices before...
Families. Politics is increasingly a family affair in England. With Ramsay MacDonald in Downing Street will be his hostess-daughter, Ishbel. Behind him on the Labor government benches will sit his son, Malcolm. With Malcolm, looking across at his overthrown Conservative father, will be Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley. Sharing Lloyd George's balance-of-power on the Liberal benches will be the Welshman's round-faced daughter, Megan, and his son, Major Gwilym...
...Seiyukai party of Prime Minister General Baron Giichi Tanaka could count upon only 221 seats. The Government was therefore menaced with upset by the Minseito opposition of 214, plus a faction holding the balance of power led by Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi. That the Cabinet was not immediately overthrown, was due to the adjournment of Parliament for the solemn enthronement of the Emperor Hirohito...
...gave utterance to these lines was, of course, the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Last week, she and her daughter-in-law, Princess Helen, mother of Baby King Mihai, jointly received in audience the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu - he who has just overthrown the corrupt, oligarchical gov ernment of onetime Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 12 et seq.). To the Dowager Queen and the Princess-Mother-of-a-King, Peasant Maniu revealed a truly staggering state of affairs. He declared that upon coming into power, last fortnight, he found in the Royal Treasury a cash...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...