Word: overthrew
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...done. The final clause was approved and Venezuela had a new constitution. It was the 22nd since the country broke away from Spain 136 years ago. On hand for the signing and formal promulgation was Provisional President Rómulo Betancourt, who had promised a new constitution when he overthrew the Isaias Medina Government in October 1945. With him were other members of the revolutionary Junta, his Cabinet, members of the diplomatic corps...
...Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government...
...Overthrew the Liberal Government of President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, returned ex-President Getulio Vargas to power...
...deal revived talk of Juan Perón's pet idea of an Argentine-led "Bloque Austral" (Southern Bloc), including Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plan was temporarily shelved after Bolivians overthrew their pro-Perón Villarroel Government last July. But the Chileans, if they felt any fears of Argentine-domination, kept quiet about them. The press without exception praised the Argentine treaty, generally gave President González Videla high marks for starting the project. Said González himself: "There is absolutely no reason to fear Argentine economic penetration. . . ." Chileans obviously...
...Mexico, in 1940, assassins had orders to lay a living ghost. He was Leon Davidovich Trotsky (real name Bronstein), organizer of the Bolshevik coup d'etat which overthrew Russia's democratic Provisional Government (1917), once Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Soviet Commissar of War, organizer and leader of the Red Army against the anti-Communist and Allied forces, and-after his expulsion from the Communist Party by Joseph Stalin-the world's No. 1 political D.P. From the safety of democratic countries (Norway, France, Mexico) which he longed to communize, this ubiquitous, political ghost had haunted Stalin...