Word: overthrown
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...Duce doubtless has things pretty well under control, but it is impossible to conceive of a man all-powerful in the state without a strong if subdued opposition. Perhaps all this party needs is the coordinating influence of the cause of their common religion. Before this time religion has overthrown kings, emperors, and dictators who seemed to be in a far more impregnable position than the present head of all Italy. James II lost his crown because of religious difficulties and modern England arose; Phillip of Spain lost the rich province of Holland due to his extreme religious views...
...President Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in regal style (promising to be back in three months), yet another revolution popped...
Legend has peopled the centre of the Abode of Loneliness-half again as large as France-with the remnant of a race whose mighty civilization long ago was overthrown, buried by the shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds...
Suavely the Mayor replied: "I'll tell you boys nobody is more in sympathy with you than the Mayor and Council of Reading. We're no novices. We know what Capitalism does to the workers and hope that Capitalism will be overthrown. . . . We've kept men on we'd ordinarily lay off. I've organized Unemployment relief and it's doing a darned good job. But . . . you don't know the law, that's all. How can we tax the rich? If I could, I would. . . . Show me a starving worker...
...Ohio, including New England). Its purpose: to remove rate discriminations between population centres and producing areas. Most fundamental changes are those made in Trunk Line Territory (which mainly includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia). The rate system that has prevailed there for 54 years is overthrown in favor of a more consistent and harmonious system based chiefly on distance. The rest of Official Territory already has this distance basis, which is the basis used by the I. C. C. in all its general rate revisions. Though by no means all the changes are upward, the Eastern roads will...