Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider the dissolution decree invalid," cried Speaker Goring, "because it was presented by a Government which the Reichstag has overthrown...
...April 18). Last week the famed and moderate Socialist Vorwärts said: "If the President had really considered a change of Government necessary and had acted accordingly he could not be reproached. But the way in which Dr. Brüning and his Cabinet, personally devoted to the President, were overthrown has profoundly altered in the widest circles the image of the man von Hindenburg. In the eyes of the German people it has clouded that image...
...fortunes of war are capricious," he quietly said. "Remember that there are now more than four million Communists in Germany. We have our Communists in Poland, too. Supposing the war imposed on us was disastrous, the national government was overthrown? The Communists, having nothing to lose, everything to gain, would seize the power and open the gates of the stronghold which has protected Western Europe. What would then happen? It is too atrocious to imagine...
...magistrates appointed by Sparta over Athens at the termination of the Peloponnesian War were called the '30 tyrants,' and were overthrown after one year's reign. The end of the tyrants was heralded with a spirit of gladness...
...pressing trip to Germany where he would undergo a necessary surgical operation. General Baldrich repeated his challenge. The Government intervened. ' It announced: "Senator Palacios, the great authority on duelling codes, has ruled that insufficient grounds exist for this challenge." Meanwhile, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen who, as President, was overthrown by the coup d'état of General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived the publisher of La Critica, the suppressed anti-Uriburu newspaper, and it resumed publication. Critica published: 1) That torture was applied to political prisoners...