Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that most people pride themselves on being reasonable individuals willing to be convinced by argument but impervious to a campaign based on emotional irritants and falsehoods, and takes advantage of it. President Conant warns against this conceit, stating that "Vanity badly armed with partial knowledge is sure to be overthrown...
...subsequent years, Bishop Noli shuttled between the U. S. and the Balkans. For six months in 1924 he was premier of republican Albania. Then he was overthrown in a rebellion headed by Ahmed Zogu, today King Zog, and fled Albania. The husky bishop settled for a time in Vienna, then returned to Boston. There he was last week when the Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhije and Maxhide, sisters of King Zog, arrived on their U. S. tour (TIME...
...usual for a Cabinet to "fall," overthrown by an adverse vote, but it can also "jump"-that is, simply resign. This rare but not unprecedented maneuver Premier Camille Chautemps executed in Paris last week, taking full advantage of his great personal triumph in having just put through both Chamber and Senate by huge majorities his Modern Labor Charter (TIME, March...
When Alexander Kerensky, whose tremulous Provisional Government was overthrown by Lenin and friends in November 1917, visited the U. S. eleven years ago, people were surprised to find he was still alive. He predicted hopefully that the Communists would be overthrown within two years. Last week he visited the U. S. again. People were surprised to find he was still alive. Asked by reporters when he expected the Communists to be overthrown, he replied: "I am no prophet...
...Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since Soviet rule in Riga was overthrown...