Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness stand was Daily Worker Editor John Gates (born Saul Regenstreif), one of the eleven Communists accused of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey had just asked him who were the authors of a pamphlet issued by the party's National Veterans Committee. He and others had prepared it, Gates answered. Who were the others, McGohey wanted to know. Gates flared up: "Those people work in private industry. I will not disclose their names and jeopardize their jobs...
...foremen, including six U.S. citizens, were brought to the hall. The kidnaping of the engineers was part of a plan to force the return of Mine Union Boss Juan Lechin, who had been banished to Chile along with 19 of his aides on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government...
Last year "Temi's" father, old Domingo Díaz, was elected President. Six weeks ago Harmodio Arias was picked up and charged with complicity in a plot to overthrow the present regime and install his brother, ex-President Arnulfo Arias. But President Díaz failed to return the courtesy Harmodio had shown his son. Harmodio got the small-fry cell at the Model Jail. Last week Harmodio, a sick man, was moved to the hospital. Four days later, Brother Arnulfo was arrested for his part in the plot. This time police had no more regard...
Died. Fernando de los Rios Urruti, 69, Socialist cabinet member and a founder of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-39); after long illness; in Manhattan. Following the bloodless overthrow of King Alfonso XIII (April 1931), De los Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...
...hobnobbed with the cardinal primate and governors. Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting the government's overthrow and wanted his advice. "This is one meeting, gentlemen," he told them, "which I cannot attend...