Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McEnary carried with him a questionnaire the answers to which he was instructed to obtain from members of the Faculty. The most important questions included therein are as follows: (1) Are you a member of the Communist Party? (2) Do you advocate the violent overthrow of the United States Government? (3) Do you lean toward the left in favor of constitutional change? (4) Do you believe in swearing allegiance to the American flag? (5) Do you believe communism should be studied in the classroom? (6) What do you think of the Russian experiment? (7) Were you ever invited to take...
...seems that a certain Mass Congressmen is going to introduce a bill into the House which will make all organizations that advocate violent overthrow of the existing government unlawful. An told that the San Simson Scion is going to have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...
Died, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling y Loret de Mola, 62, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S.; of asthma; in Washington. In 1932 he broke with Dictator Machado and on his overthrow in 1933 became successively Ambassador to the U. S.. Secretary of State. Provisional President, and Ambassador to the U. S. Last May he won a life-long fight when he became Cuba's sole signatory to the abrogation of the Platt Amendment...
Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 6--Overthrow of the Okada government was feared imminent today, over relief and military issues...
Three years ago Luis Quintanilla was a great man in Madrid. A burning revolutionist all his life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy...