Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been intelligent enough to do something about it. . . . In the spring of 1933 we faced a crisis which was the ugly fruit of twelve years of neglect, neglect of the causes of economic and social unrest. It was a crisis made to order for all those who would overthrow our form of government...
...enough for eager spectators that the whole boxful had been lumped together the day before by Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin as "the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph...
...give his reign stature, Herod married Mariamne, daughter of the dynasty he had supplanted. In doing so he allied himself with a family that constantly plotted his overthrow. Forthright, candid in his ruthlessness, Herod could not cope with the subtlety of the courtiers and diplomats of Jerusalem, was almost driven mad by real or imaginary conspiracies around him. He killed his wife, his mother-in-law, his three oldest sons, even shook his great prestige at Rome by the frenzy of his conspiracy-hunting. Growing more and more active as an administrator as he wiped out the members...
...dictatorship based on the personality of the late great Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Excuse for the dictatorship is Poland's nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will be the Inspector-General of the Army, Edward Rydz-Smigly. He will outrank...
With the Negus heading for parts unknown like Man O' War on the home stretch, the Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...