Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government has been carrying out important social reforms. It has done so with the widest popular movement of expectation and hope. But it has done so without a single clash between citizens, without order having been disturbed in the street a single time, without a single institution having been overthrown, without a single citizen having been despoiled...
...American public, Professor Malinowski of London asserted sensibly that any such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed of, but nationalism can hardly be overthrown by professors with a constitution, an office, and a mimeograph...
China Development Corp. This concern sold its control to Belgian interests whom Chinese suspected of being secret agents for the Imperial Russian Government. In 1905 the Imperial Chinese Government bought back the concession for $6,750,000. At the time the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, some 30 miles of the railway had been completed. In succeeding turbulent years parts of the line were built by fits & starts by Chinese groups to serve their local interests...
...long (449 pages), rambling, historical novel, Sanfelice strikes a contemporary note in its exhaustive discussion of the ephemeral Republic of Naples, established after the revolution of 1799 and overthrown a few months later. Central figure of the novel is Luisa Sanfelice, 34-year-old daughter of impoverished nobles, unloved and unloving wife of a dissolute, treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous...
...loans of $78,000 were paid off, premium income upped 57%, surplus increased by $60,000. When some of these accomplishments were reported to Chicago's Federal District Judge Evan Evans, who had furnished Director Powell no small amount of judicial cooperation, he declared: "We have overthrown a defective organization and established a new one, which is going to make this the best and most successful colored insurance company in the U. S." Today Victory has some $8,000,000 in outstanding policies, $700,000 in assets...