Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweden joggled politically to the Right last week as the bourgeois parties combined to overthrow the Socialist Cabinet of Premier Sandler when he attempted to jam through the Diet a measure granting unemployment doles even to men wilfully unemployed or on strike...
...gained by the Cabinet from Abd-El-Krim's defeat (see p. 12) as well as the Right's desire to save the franc aided Premier Briand in securing his vote of confidence 320 to 209. All fiscal debate was thereby postponed for another week and the Cabinet's overthrow again avoided by a hair...
...Lisbon, a capital whose surpassing natural beauty and once imposing buildings have been overlaid in recent years by a scum of filth, poverty and decay, there occurred last week one more of the successful military insurrections which have rent the republic of Portugal since the overthrow of the monarchy...
Rival Government? At Posen, General Haller, organizer of the Polish Legion in the U. S. during the World War, assembled some 10,000 troops, which started to march on Warsaw early in the week to overthrow Pilsudski. Late despatches reported that this expedition had been abandoned, that General Haller had been feted and decked with flowers by Posenites, who were encouraging him to set up a rival government of Poland with their city as its capital...
Thus, there began at Budapest, last week, a trial as seemingly nonsensical as that of Alice in Wonderland: the trial of those Gargantuan Hungarians who counterfeited 30,000,000,000 French francs, allegedly with intent to finance a putsch which would overthrow the present Hungarian Regency* and seat a Habsburg again upon the Hungarian Throne. (TIME...