Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agrarian Government, headed by Premier Stambuliski, was overthrown by an organization of reserve officers supported by the regular army. All Cabinet Ministers with the exception of Stambuliski, whose capture is imminent, were thrown into prison. King Boris is said to have aided the revolutionaries. His position seems safe. The present situation: civil war in progress between the military party and the Agrarians...
...there are sections in China where people aren't interested in the fighting, and. for that matter, don't even know that there has been a revolution. I don't doubt that there are thousands of people who do not even know the Emperor has been overthrown. You see, the large majority of Chinamen aren't interested in self-government- have no conception of the idea. So long as things move along smoothly and taxes aren't heavy, they don't care who rules." So says a returning traveler from Shanghai. It is true...
...diametrically opposite interpretations. In one, he may be regarded as an elemental savage, so destitute of feeling that it takes little urging to send him on his career of evil; while, on the other hand, he may be thought of as a grave and high minded nobleman, suddenly overthrown by ambition. In the very second scene, Shakespere gives us an elaborate laudatory exposition of Macbeth's character. In the third we see him crumble under the influence of the supernatural...
China has practically no soldiers, and no ammunition to furnish those which she has. For the last decade she has been in a state of civil war which can only be compared to that of France during the revolution of 1789, Like France she has overthrown a dynasty of absolute monarchs in power for nearly three centuries, and now is in difficulty about finding another government. Dictatorship has followed republic, and monarchy dictatorship, anarchy filling the gaps between, until the nation is practically bankrupt. Dr. Wu Tingfang, the only truly great patriot China has had, is now dead; President...
Violently and quickly is the political pendulum swinging. A vital change comes in the policy of the Russian Government, a conservative reaction sweeps England, a Liberal ministry, is overthrown in Germany, a black-shirted dictator arises in Italy. Is the pendulum tending toward equilibrium again or is it becoming magnetized? And in that event on which side is the magnet...