Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothes or buy his license to practice. What he needs above all is a hospital for his trusting charges, and it is the miraculous birth that comes as a providential means of answering his prayer. There are surly villians, too, and problems of love, but are automatically overthrown and solved, respectively, in the doctor's hour of triumph. Then the quins frisk about for a while, and the picture draws to a happy close...
...civilian Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging it to boot him off the Throne, His Majesty dissolved Parliament without permitting it to meet last week, ordered for Jan. 26 an election. Elections in Greece usually return the government that runs them...
...certain art objects of national importance returned, among which was the Fogg sarcophagus. In return, the Spanish government would give other works of art of equal intrinsic value. This plan, however, was purely unofficial, and before the Duke was able to accomplish anything more definite, his king had been overthrown by the revolution...
...Cheka become that it was finally supposed to have been purged of its baser elements and was renamed the Ogpu. Under the late great Felix Dzerzhinsky, an extremely able and somewhat sadistic Pole, the Ogpu became internationally odious but in Russia it saved the Bolshevik Dictatorship from being overthrown by popular and democratic elements. That Arch-Terrorist Dzerzhinsky had deserved well of Bolshevism was signalized after his death when a Soviet steamer which today plies between Leningrad and London was named the S. S. Felix Dzerzhinsky...
Said Mr. Beck: "In his Farewell Address, George Washington solemnly warned his and all succeeding generations of Americans that the Constitution could be more easily 'undermined' than 'directly overthrown.' Today time gives that prediction proof, and the most effective method of undermining the Constitution is by the doctrine that the Federal Government can usurp the police powers of the states by the simple method of licensing...