Word: expels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admittance of Signer Greco, ally of Giolitti, into the ranks of the Fascista Party, Captain Padovani and some of his supporters sent in their resignations to Mussolini?but he was too subtle to accept them. Instead, Benito convened a meeting of the Fascista Executive Council which unanimously decided to expel from the party Padovani and such Fascisti as remained faithful to him. The decision is said to affect 40,000 members...
...Essen ended in a casualty list of 9 killed and 26 wounded. A large number of Germans were arrested and some were deported; the most important case being the arrest of four Krupp directors on the charge of stirring the workers to resist the troops. General Degoutte threatened to expel all railway officials and workers unless they return to work. Hotels and stores in Bochum, forcibly closed by the French a month ago, declined to reopen on the ground that they would still refuse to serve or sell to the French...
...York Assembly's highest purpose were to encourage unrest and precipitate revolution it could have done no better than to expel the five Socialists. However much we may dislike the principles of Socialism--and however justifiable that dislike may be--to expel lawfully elected men for adhering to those principles is nothing less than a crime against representative government...
...chief trouble with our American colleges is not that they have too many radical thinkers; it is that they have not thinkers enough. To expel instructors from our faculties as "dangerous" to the youth of the nation, is not only to belittle the intelligence of undergraduates, it is to encourage a lack of intelligence. Agitators can be disproved better by analysis and argument than by force. Force is an acknowledgment of the failure of a better weapon. Discussion brings out what good there is in new ideas, and, if it is real discussion, shows up what...