Word: overthrew
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...when lie had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overthrew the tables...
Thus ended a seven-month battle which had sent the provisional budget from the Chamber to the Senate and back again nine times and overthrew the brief Government of Joseph Paul-Boncour. French brokers agreed that the long awaited budget might have been worse. High as the deficit is, it has been trimmed 75% from that which an amiable Chamber wished to present to the country in November. Three points that Premier Daladier fought for were gained: a 5% reduction in all Government expenditures except the army & navy *; sending to the committee the inflammatory Socialist proposal...
...possible for his Cabinet to raise the general French income tax rate 10% and cut the salaries of civil servants receiving more than $470 yearly. Meeting in caucus, the Socialist Party split, the majority faction bolting away from Party Leader Leon Blum. Famed as a Cabinet killer, M. Blum overthrew Premiers Herriot and Paul-Boncour. He favored overthrowing Premier Daladier last week. Paris grew feverish with excitement as midnight neared. The last day for voting credits to tide the Cabinet through March had come. Before midnight Premier Daladier knew that he must either win a vote of confidence or fall...
Meanwhile gallant Premier-reject Edouard Herriot, who went down fighting for payment to the U. S. when the Chamber overthrew his Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 26), received last week the most flabbergasting surprise of his life. As M. Herriot said not long ago: "Half the skill of being Premier of France lies in knowing how to fall!" but last week he learned that he need not have fallen, need never have raised the debt issue in the Chamber, need not have worried about it all those months...
Sponsors of these drastic measures were at first announced to include Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, who would have to find the money for a Chinese military adventure and Sun Fo. son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Revolution" of 1911 which overthrew China's ruling Manchu House. Next day Dr. Soong and Mr. Sun denied sponsoring the resolutions which, nevertheless, had passed and produced immediate results. Within a few hours Chinese patriots stole into the British Concession at Tientsin, approached the residence of the Japanese Consul General, threw a bomb which exploded with much...