Word: overthrow
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...these last five months there have been tremendous changes. When last I spoke we had just experienced the terrific shock of the overthrow of France. Hitler seemed irresistible. First Poland had been overwhelmed, then Norway, then Holland, then Belgium. Finally came the destruction in less than a month's fighting of what had been rated as the finest army for its size in Europe, and the disarmament and division of France...
...This report confirms that Bridges is a Communist and that the Communist Party advocates overthrow of the United States government," Hoover said...
Meanwhile, the Journal & American and the American Legion demanded that Brooklyn College's alleged Communists be dismissed, under a law (enacted last year) barring from civil-service employment those who advocate overthrow of the Government by force. But Investigator Windels and President Gideonse agreed that a teacher could not be dismissed merely for membership in the Communist Party, could be dismissed for "improper" political activity (e.g., classroom propaganda for Communism...
...commerce, finance, monarchy, almost any tradition, marriage. Shortly before his death, Shelley wrote Leigh Hunt: "The system of society as it exists at present must be overthrown from the foundations. . . ." Before he was tossed out of Oxford (for publishing The Necessity of Atheism), Shelley had dedicated himself to this overthrow...
...Japanese Government is in the hands of extremists. One faction-the Army group-wants to seize the prize of the Indies; another wants to overthrow the Emperor and seize power for itself. Foremost among the latter is a dark character named Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who has been involved in enough shady operations to give several firing squads employment, but who has never been punished with anything but words...