Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selassic prays in the mountains.... Italian forces invade Ethiopia.... There's an Oriental sky over the Charles tonight.... London assures Paris; Paris assures London.... Soviet plans to build bath tubs and bakeries for Eskimos.... Roosevelt warns war a potent peril.... Farley designs a new stamp.... Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris.... Japanese impatient with Nanking.... Women rebel against food prices.... Skirts to be longer this fall.... Stocks fall sharply.... Largest peacetime treasury deficit.... Wheat prices...
Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...
...George will resign, ambitious Herbert Morrison, the Cockney Labor boss of the London County Council who expects to be the next Labor Prime Minister, rushed about last week rousing his constituents with the platform cry: "Mussolini is an irresponsible fanatic with bloodthirsty tendencies. The people of Italy ought to overthrow...
...shootings in the chamber were not the only sad incidents in Mexico last week. As secretly as possible trainloads of Federal troops were hustled north to Sonora. Rumors persisted along the border that seven separate rebel armies were drilling in the dusty mountains, preparing to overthrow Governor Ramon Ramos, a stanch Calles adherent...
...advocate the overthrow of Alabama's government by violence. We urge the citizens to arm themselves with shillalahs, set out for Montgomery and whale Hell out of members of the Alabama Legislature...