Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having scored such a victory Sir Joseph had only to magnetize into his Union Party a few more Independents, ere he could overthrow the Coates Cabinet and resume the Prime Ministry-after 16 years...
...operated last session and will resume operating next week. The impropriety of voters being "represented" from December to March by individuals whom they have voted in November to replace, is seldom so glaring in the House as it is in the Senate, except when there is a complete party overthrow as in 1920. Being a much larger body than the Senate, the House depends far more than the Senate upon internal organization for its functioning. The master men of this internal organization must be individuals who have repeatedly been re-elected and thus gained seniority, experience, prestige in the House...
...refreshed their memories as to the actual nature of the Internationale by re-reading Article I of its Constitution. Text: The new International Workmen's Association is formed for the organization of joint action by the proletariats of various countries, who are struggling for the same aims; the overthrow of capitalism, the creation of a dictatorship of the proletariat and an International Soviet Republic for the complete abolition of classes and the realization of Socialism, the first step towards a Communist society...
...cravat he becomes the object of scorn. Such a man is the notorious, fat, spider-like Bela Kun. For 143 days during 1919 he was the atrociously cruel Communist Dictator of Hungary. Today he is mortally hated and feared by the whole Hungarian people and suspected of plotting to overthrow the present reactionary Hungarian Government and the conservative Government of Austria...
...Petersburg. After a prolonged inspection from dubious and dull-witted cinema censors, this interesting though not entertaining production was permitted to appear before Manhattan spectators. It delineated for their benefit the events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin...