Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly certain newspapers and persons began to murmur, "This Parsee,* this M.P. from Battersea, he's a Red, an anarchist, a whatnot. What does the State Department mean by admitting him? Doesn't the law forbid the entrance of persons into this country who advocate the overthrow of our Government...
...This is no place for them. Nobody, I believe, will object to any citizen of the United States advocating a change of our form of Government by legal and constitutional means, but I do not believe we should admit foreigners to this country to preach anarchy or a revolutionary overthrow of Government...
...report from Sofia had it that the last of the legal cases arising after the overthrow and killing of Premier Stambuliski in 1923 (TIME, June 25, 1923) are about to be cleaned up. At the little town of Tirnovo, 500 alleged Communists will be tried in a group, and 10,000 witnesses will be called to testify...
...could do this with no compunction of conscience, believing God, knowing my heart and purpose in so doing, would pardon me, as I am sure he pardoned John Brown of Harper's Ferry for doing what he did to hasten the overthrow of human slavery...
Much can be done, if only it doesn't rain. There's the Pekin Government to overthrow as usual. True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...