Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mouths to the enlisted men that many of the officers were still loyal to Machado, that Provisional President de Cespedes planned to cut the Army's numbers and pay. Last week a little band of sergeants walked into the Camp Columbia barracks of the very officers who had overthrown Machado. Firmly and none too politely the sergeants told their superiors they were through. Word traveled fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt of the sergeants." They held the forts, ships, men, artillery...
...citizen of South Bend, he left a note for his adopted son: "Russel, I can't go on any longer." Died. Hipolito Irigoyen, 85, twice president (1916-22; 1928-30) of Argentina; of a throat cancer; in Buenos Aires where he had lived a virtual prisoner since being overthrown by General Uriburu...
...Personalista is a man once called "the most popular man in Argentina," grizzled old Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen who was twice President (1916-22 and 1928-30), being overthrown in the middle of his second term by a military coup d'etat (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). Between Dr. Irigoyen's first and second terms Argentina's President was his loyal henchman. Dr. Marcello T. de Alvear. Last week the Justo Government seized Dr. Irigoyen and Dr. de Alvear before anything was proved against them, rushed them aboard the despatch boat Golondrina and instructed it to make for Martin...
Candidate of the Radical Party was Arturo Alessandri, 64, who had been President of Chile from 1920-24 until overthrown by a coup d'etat under a General Altamirano. He won by an enormous margin. Snarled defeated Colonel Grove: "I have returned to win now-or later" (presumably by attempting another coup d'etat...
...Dryden who for the first time, and as far as we are concerned, for all time, established a normal English speech, a speech valid for both verse and prose, and imposing its laws which greater poetry than Dryden's might violate, but which no poetry since has overthrown." This statement covers both of Mr. Eliot's main points, and what he says in the rest of the book illustrates, but does not add to it. The occasional obiter dicta on other poets, by way of contrast and comparison, and on poetry in general, are particularly felicitous, and rather more interesting...