Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans seem scarcely civilized. You are exactly like the Germans under Hitler. . . . Your workingmen are fools who . . . are satisfied with a raise in wages when they should be organizing to overthrow your Government...
...Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers preferred them). She came to be known as the "Mata Hari of China." When war ended she was captured and three weeks...
...believe that Americans will come to overthrow the present regime...
Like the others, Williamson was accused of advocating the overthrow by violence of the U.S. Government. His lawyer, Mrs. Carol King, who had defended them all, promptly sought his release on bail, set to planning his defense...
...this week was Ferdinand Christapher Smith, national secretary of Joe Curran's C.I.O. National Maritime Union. Smith, a Negro, entered the U.S. from Jamaica in 1919. Like Williamson, he was picked up as he left his Manhattan apartment and taken to Ellis Island. He not only advocated violent overthrow of the U.S., said the warrant, but returned from a Mexican trip in 1945 without a visa. Smith's politics were no news to Curran. Only recently Joe had called him a Communist Party cardholder...