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Word: overthrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally I have never been approached by anyone who is disseminating this so-called Fascist propaganda, nor have those Italian-American acquaintances of mine who are violently anti-Fascist ever complained to me that the Black Shirts are attempting to overthrow or degrade the pure ideals cherished by Mr. Cohen and his American associates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Red and Black | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

Communists seized the opportunity to urge "an overthrow of British Imperialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jewry v. Islam | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...because it had been perfected while the inventor was on active duty, because he had been educated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Government expense. Justice Stafford held that the Sibley case had closed to question the right of service men to take out patents. Hoping perhaps to overthrow the Sibley precedent as well as escape paying the Fiske damages, the Government prepared to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patents on Duty | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Stimulated by the success of liberals in England and Japan (see p. 25), Socialists, members of the Left Cartel in the Chamber of Deputies spent a busy week trying to overthrow the Poincaré government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crucial Slap | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

This Roanoke gathering was the political child of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, arch-enemy of the Smith-Raskob leadership. In a public letter a few weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Era of Humanity | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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