Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed Soong sisters (one sister was the widow of Sun Yatsen, another the wife of Financier H. H. Kung, longtime member of Chiang's Cabinet). Chiang was a revolutionist of unity, not upset. His mission was to weld a nation out of many pieces, not to overthrow a monolithic government in the name of individual liberty. Dr. Sun Yat-sen used to argue that, unlike Europe, China had not too little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide...
Said he: "The figure that France cuts in the world, because of ministerial instability, wounds and irritates Frenchmen. The Assembly can overthrow as many governments as it pleases without any other motive than the opportunity of its members to satisfy ambitions overstimulated by the very frequency of the crises." Added Reynaud with a bitter irony: "It's becoming a disgrace not to have been a minister just like everyone else...
...eleven Communists convicted in 1949 of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the Government were released from prison last week after having served 44 months of five-year sentences (16 months off for good behavior). But they were not free men. Benjamin J. Davis Jr., 51, former New York City councilman, was immediately taken to Pittsburgh to serve a 60-day contempt-of-court sentence. The others were rearrested on charges of knowingly being members of a party dedicated to violent overthrow of the Government, a charge first tested by the Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago...
...benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters, the corrupt local officials, the Communistic subversives who would undermine and overthrow our Government with bloodshed and terror such as we have seen abroad . . . are no more dangerous to the country at large than the judges [and lawyers], many of them amiable gentlemen, who oppose either openly or covertly every change in procedural law and administration that would serve to eliminate technicalities, surprise...
...Premier of France, the most popular, brilliant and energetic man to hold the office since the inception of the Fourth Republic. Now, ringing in his ears were the hoarse shouts and curses of his colleagues in the Chamber of Deputies still panting from the bitterest, most vindictive and unseemly overthrow of any Premier in recent French history...