Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There he became involved in a typically partisan student political campaign and was elected to an office under the auspices of the Czechoslovakian Socialist Party, Benes' Party. Because of these affiliations, soon after the internal overthrow of the government in February, 1948, Dane's name was put on a list that read...
...Communist leaders, recently sentenced to jail, were convicted of violation of the Smith Act, which prohibits advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence...
...ENNOBLING INSPIRATION TO ALL FREE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN MARKED CONTRAST WAS THE TRIAL OF JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY IN BUDAPEST. IT TOOK THE KREMLIN THREE DAYS TO IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS: "THE PROPHET AND THE MARTYR DO NOT SEE THE HOOTING THRONG. THEIR EYES ARE FIXED ON THE ETERNITIES." ALL AMERICA SHOULD HONOR JUDGE MEDINA FOR GIVING...
...eleven convicted top U.S. Communists stood up before Federal Judge Harold R. Medina to be sentenced. For conspiring to teach and advocate forceful overthrow of the U.S. Government, ten of the eleven were sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine each. The eleventh got a $10,000 fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes...
...must be satisfied from the evidence, beyond a reason able doubt, that the defendants had an intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of the Government of the United States by force and violence ... as speedily as circumstances would permit it to be achieved...