Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just at present few can see any great danger of a Red invasion, and the overthrow of government by radicals of extreme doctrines. Much more urgent a matter is the policy of the opposite party, which, under the guise of protecting defenceless America from pernicious Reds, wields a powerful weapon of reaction. The same group of Bolshevik-bailers that backs the closing of Ford Hall Forum lists such names as Dean Pound, Professor Bliss Perry, and the presidents of Smith and Mt. Holyoke as dangerous, and closes to them lecture platforms in towns and clubs where the black list...
...there is an increasing number of clergymen who conduct 'services' at which no prayers are offered and where no reference is made to God. ..." A final paragraph expounded the slogan, "Kill the Beast," with which the cover of the Annual Report was conspicuously adorned: "The hour to overthrow the Church has come. Arise, ye prisoners of the priest! Strike down the God superstition! The Clergy are powerful because you are on your knees. Stand up! ... Be men! . . . Prepare for the oncoming religious revolution." The "greatest achievement of the year" was described as the "founding ... of the American Anti...
Immediately after the trial the Government promulgated a law, passed by both houses of Parliament, increasing the penalties for those attempting to overthrow the throne or government or in any way attempting to interfere with the constitutional rights of succession...
Besides his achievements along these lines, Peter was the true founder of the Russian Empire that endured in solitary state for two centuries, and only fell in the overthrow of Nicholas in 1915. His war with Sweden that gave him, after the Battle of Pultowa, the hegemony of Northern Europe, was one of the greatest military campaigns of history, and the edifice which Peter founded was a lasting tribute to the genius and leadership...
...nothing really paradoxical about last week's ceremony at Vicksburg when Major General Frank B. Cheatham, U. S. A., representing Secretary. of War Dwight Filley Davis, accepted for the Federal Government a memorial statue of the president and commander-in-chief of the Confederacy which tried to overthrow that Government, Jefferson Davis...