Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plot to Overthrow Christmas (Thurs. 4 p.m. CBS), a play by Norman Corwin in its fourth annual presentation...
...What we face is nothing more nor less than an attempt to overthrow and to cancel out the great upsurge of human liberty of which the American Bill of Rights is the fundamental document...
...been some calisthenics and some target shooting with two .22 pistols and two .22 rifles. Chiefly to intimidate sniffing local Fascists, squeaked they. As for the capitalist system, they admitted that their whiskers curled against it, but they categorically denied, on their honor as mice, that they wanted to overthrow it by force...
...they high crime of possessing literature that can be found in almost every school and library throughout the country. These 18 were tried under the Smith act, which slipped through Congress a few months ago, making it illegal to express an opinion concerning the propriety of the overthrow of the government by force and violence. The only evidence which the government produced was the Marxist and Trotskyist literature which was found in the offices of the defendants, members of the Minneapolis Teamsters; Union and the Minneapolis Socialist Workers' Party. The government abandoned completely its attempt to prove any overt acts...
...government had been trying to maintain that a little group of Trotskyites, whose party claimed the grand total of 5000 members, was conspiring to overthrow the established order, and constituted a real danger, it would be merely laughable. But Assistant Attorney General Schweinhaut abandoned completely the doctrine of "clear and present danger" which has been established for a generation by the highest court in the land as the basis for prosecution in cases involving expression of opinion. He claimed that any expression of opinion which might possibly lead to acts of violence was illegal...