Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like any other politician, Candidate Foster was careful to omit none of his party's time-tested cliches. Another "tool of the Capitalists," he said, was Democrat Smith. The Workers party, he explained, was part of the Communist International. It was a revolutionary party. Its aim was to overthrow the capitalist order in the U. S. Capitalism bred war. Capitalism would involve the U. S. in the "next...
...Overthrow of the existing social order...
...Chinese armies of today) are an irresponsible rabble, constantly committing acts of violence and depredation in the course of their incessant warfare. Japan, right or wrong, is using shot & shell to keep the rabble at a distance from Japanese colonists in Shan tung, and to prevent the overthrow of Chang Tso-lin whom Japan, rightly or wrongly, regards as the least undesirable of the Chinese war lords...
Governor Small is also her enemy, her chosen enemy. Long ago she promised to overthrow him if no man could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
...journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...