Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, after a special trial of the eight, set up by the Board of Education and presided over by Manhattan Lawyer Theodore Kiendl, the city got a verdict. Ruled Kiendl: since the Communist Party has "at all pertinent times [been] dedicated to the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government of the United States . . . membership in the party constitutes cause for dismissal of a teacher . . ." Therefore, said Kiendl, it was "perfectly proper" for the superintendent to ask the question he did, and it was the duty of each teacher to answer...
...chance, the voter swung at home-grown subversives. Maryland approved the Ober law, once ruled unconstitutional by a state circuit court. It requires a loyalty oath from state employees and candidates, sets up a maximum penalty of $20,000 fine and 20 years in prison for attempting or advocating overthrow of the U.S.-or of the Free State of Maryland. Michigan approved a sweeping definition of subversion, authorized its legislature to take up anti-commie laws from there...
...trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
...Homburg. After President Roosevelt's visit in 1934, he shrieked: "Cowards, you should have received Roosevelt with bullets but you greeted him with flowers." In 1936 one of his terrorists assassinated the island police chief. As a result of the murder, Albizu was arrested for conspiring to overthrow...
...Brazilian army rose in a bloodless coup to overthrow Dictator Getulio Vargas. Ever since, the date has been celebrated as a kind of second independence day,* with speeches about democracy and grateful bows to the army for ending 15 years of strong-arm rule. This year, with presidential election tallies showing Getulio Vargas leading almost two to one, Brazilians wondered whether or not the Oct. 29 "Week of Democracy" would be observed. Last week the army, navy and police gave them the answer: since no one had ordered any festivities, there would be no celebration...