Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Rican National Guard was held under arms in its armories, ready for any emergency, Nationalist headquarters throughout the island were raided. The police found one loaded Springfield, one bomb, 50 wooden guns, and a batch of "Army of Liberation" enlistment cards. Charged with sedition and conspiracy to overthrow the Federal Government, Albizu Campos was indignant because the U. S. would not release him and his friends on $1 bail. Instead bail was given at $10,000 each and Albizu Campos went back to court. Since there is no such crime as sedition under Puerto Rican law, many peaceable advocates...
When Brass clashed out last week with reminders of the incontestable violations committed in the presence of Stalin himself when overthrow of U. S. Capitalist institutions was urged in Moscow by U. S. Communists Browder and Darcy (TIME, Aug. 12), the reply of Steel was for once just a bit embarrassed and evasive...
...General Counsel Cornwell to a Y. M. C. A. gathering in Baltimore last week: "My hair stood on end when I read those resolutions. I drew the line when I saw they advocated social equality with Negroes in church offices and they wanted to stop those who would penalize overthrow of our government by force. ... If that's going to be the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, I'm going to do what Al Smith said he'd do - I'll take a walk...
...confusion that followed the death of NRA the stockmarket went into a sharp decline. With this false movement well in mind, the market hesitated for only a few hours after the overthrow of AAA, then surged upward in a series of 3,000,000-share days that last week carried the industrial averages to new highs since November. Thus did business register its long view on the aftermath of AAA.* However, most businessmen were more concerned last week with the immediate results of AAA's passing upon these commodities...
...authoritatively stated, will be as first Lord of the Admiralty where he will replace the resigning Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. The crux of the situation is that Sir Samuel's immense energy and grasp of the international situation has been found indispensable, and that the government will risk overthrow or embarassment in return for his invaluable services...