Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people to repentance. Never, as you may observe, was he informed that Nineveh would be destroyed, or even directed to threaten the people with overthrow. But it was, of course, understood that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object was repentance, not destruction. The threat of the consequences of their sin was the means of bringing about reform. It was the argument Jonah...
...this country will be held in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock, when a picked three from the University of Washington will meet a team from the University. "Free Speech" will be the subject, which is worded as follows "Resolved: That Congress should suppress all propaganda advocating the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence, constitutionality granted...
...that membership in the Communist Labor Party does not "per se" render an alien liable to instant deportation. This decision is eminently reasonable and just. Secretary Wilson announces that after careful investigation he cannot find any part of the program of this party which advocates violence or the forcible overthrow of government. Many aliens, he further points out, are members of the party without knowing it. It seems hardly in accordance with any principle of free government to punish such ignorance with deportation...
...assassination of governmental officials is attempted by the Reds today, as Attorney-General Palmer has predicted, all America will rise united as never before to crush the alien organizations which preach overthrow of the government by violence. The American plan of government is based on the right of any citizen to favor any changes in our form of government he may desire, so long as constitutional methods are followed. Every American has a perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when...
...movement has nothing at all to do with the Bolsheviki, as is often thought, and its leaders are absolutely anti-Bolshevik. It is a purely economic, non-political organization,--a constructive business proposition,--and was the only factor that kept the Russian army going during the war after the overthrow of the Czar...