Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin was replaced early this week by a defeatist junta of six military and political leaders headed by General Segismundo Casado, recently appointed military commander of the Madrid Zone. Dr. Negrin was overthrown and given his flying papers to France in what had all the earmarks of a bloodless but forceful Army coup d'etat. It spelled the final dissolution of Loyalist Spain and brought peace very near to the war-weary country...
...Ukrainian separatist movement of the 19th Century was little more than a dream fostered by a few Galician intellectuals. During the World War it became a German-imported article which reached its greatest success when the Tsar was overthrown, the Russian armies collapsed and German Warlords Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff decided that the Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White...
...Where freedom of religion has been the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. An ordering of society which relegates religion, democracy and good faith to the background can find no place it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such ordering and retains its ancient faith...
Curator MacLeish also noted that: 1) no attempt is made to teach journalism as such; 2) the Fellowships are still "experimental"; 3) "The assumption that journalists with questions to ask may properly be allowed to dispense with ordinary scholastic requirements has not as yet been overthrown...
...Warsaw and in Budapest last week the overwhelming will of two highly emotional peoples to grab slices of Czechoslovakia was such that Poland and Hungary would certainly have overthrown their Cabinets, had not Polish Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz and Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy been 100% in accord with popular opinion. A slice of defeated Hungary containing 1,000,000 Magyars was carved off in 1920 by the Allies to help make up Czechoslovakia...