Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That to establish a 7-2 rule would produce a worse condition than at present: three objectors on the bench could do as much to uphold an iniquitous and unconstitutional law as five Justices can now do to overthrow a good...
...That the present law has allowed the Supreme Court to overthrow time after time laws to restrict child labor and other necessary social legislation...
...Philippine representative at Washington, tonight at the Union. the some 3,141 islands composing the Philippines, present a problem to our government every bit as complex as that which India presents to Great Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack of education and "linguistic diversities," plus a Moro element, a small but violent portion of the total population which professed the Mohammedan religion in opposition to the Catholic...
...dinner given by the [American] Ambassador last night, Dictator Primo de Rivera sat next to Mrs. Hearst, who was the guest of honor. They carried on a lively conversation, Mrs. Hearst manifesting extreme interest in the dictator's description of events leading up to the overthrow of the old regime. . . . " Tonight the Infanta Isabel- will meet Mrs. Hearst at a reception at the Embassy...
...creditable shots." Whereupon someone asked: " It was a better game, perhaps, than the one you played with M. Briand at Cannes ?" referring to the famous game with the former French Premier, the description of which in the Chamber of Deputies is said to have hastened M. Briand's overthrow...