Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France the national theatre (Comedie Francaise) is so intimately connected with the government that a Premier might well be overthrown upon the issue of his Cabinet's dramatic policy. Last week the Chamber gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 350 to 152, in support of the withdrawal from the Comedie's repertoire of La Carcasse, a new play which has been widely denounced as "insulting to the soldiers of France." The plot featured adultery by a French general's wife, embezzlement by his soldier...
Georgia. Atlanta, the onetime Imperial City of the Klan, is nearly deserted so far as the Klan is concerned. The leadership of the Klan was lost when the Simmons and Clarke dynasty was overthrown by the Texan dynasty of Hiram Wesley Evans. The palace is deserted or nearly so, and the home it gave to Simmons was sold when he went forth to found the Knights of the Flaming Sword. Clarke has founded the anti-evolution society?the Supreme Kingdom (TIME, Feb. 1, EDUCATION). No more are great national meetings held in Atlanta. It still is powerful in small cities...
...that the greatest fiscal experts in France disagreed by hundreds of thousands of francs as to what revenue the resulting bill would produce. None the less, the Deputies passed it and gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 258 to 145?i.e., with over 100 abstentions, enough to have overthrown the Premier if even half the abstentees had voted against him. Finally, the Chamber voted itself a much needed recess...
...European nations would seem to preclude the idea of European selfishness. Nevertheless, since the overthrow of the pre-war balance of power policy, these nations of the Occident begin to show strong signs of desiring to handle lesser powers in a very arbitrary fashion. The smaller nations which have overthrown monarchical rule and followed the example of Western civilization in adopting more or less democratic forms of government begin to be considered thorns in the sides of their greater sister nations. Now the big powers of Europe seem desirous of creating federations of small sovereign nations...
...Ways and Means Committee this yearOPEN_P]They produced severally a number of arguments. Mr. Rainey denounced the government of Mussolini, calling it cruel, tyrannical; declared that the U.S. had no business to make an agreement with such a government. It was said that Mussolini would soon be overthrown and that therefore it was folly to make an agreement with him. Mr. Hull favored waiting until Italy had made economic recovery in order to get better terms. Others declared that Italy was doing well economically, had great resources. How, they asked, is it that a bankrupt is able...