Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swim with the Left. In that quarter he can of course count on Herriot's Radical-Socialists, since a majority of the new Cabinet are of that ilk. But it is considered significant that several Socialists, notably Louis Loucheur, refused portfolios- which leaves their party free to overthrow the new Cabinet at pleasure...
...immigration laws forbidding access to the country to persons advocating or practising polygamy, advocating the overthrow of constituted government, etc. The immigration officers of the Department of Labor have authority in enforcing these laws. A portion of the authority is also vested in the State Department through the power of its agents abroad in granting or denying visas for the passports of alien visitors...
...until six years ago a social worker in San Francisco and joined the Communist Labor Party. In November, 1919, she defied the police by making a speech at the Oakland Civic Centre. She was arrested and tried. It was not claimed that she had ever advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government, or had incited anyone to violence. None the less she was convicted by a jury (composed half of women) because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money...
...what the defendants call Communism, are liable to be prosecuted for sedition. . . . The defendants before me are not prosecuted because they are Communists. . . . The prosecution suggests that Communism, as it is understood and explained by these persons and their associates, is illegal because it involves three things: first, the overthrow of the constituted Government of the country and the established forms of Government by force; second, the creation of antagonism between different classes of His Majesty's subjects; third, seducing from their allegiance of the armed force of the Crown...
Said Dr. John Roach Straton, militant Baptist fundamentalist clergyman: "Religion is the foundation of the State and the only bond for decent and orderly society. Anything seeking to overthrow the church is a scoffing at the foundation of government itself. The action of Mr. Justice Mitchell is very wise and very just...