Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From San Francisco, Socialist Norman Thomas wryly doubted that "it would be worth $3,000,000 to any Wall Street group to attempt to overthrow the Government under the present Administration, because Wall Street and Big Business have flourished under it more than any other group...
Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 28--Premier Kiesuke Okada's military-controlled government was threatened with overthrow today with the convening of a special session of the Imperial Diet to consider serious financial and political issues endangering the life of his cabinet...
...courtroom in the pleasant Swiss city of Berne last week a world-wide idea went on trial. The idea; Jewry has long been plotting to overthrow all governments and replace them with a vast and tyrannical Jewish super-government...
...Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador...
Back in the days of the Big Stick, New Jersey was the favorite mother of corporations. Today it is Delaware, whose charters permit a corporation to do about anything it wants except overthrow the government. Even New Dealers scurry up to Wilmington to charter pseudo-governmental agencies like Electric Home & Farm Authority, U. S. Public Works Emergency Housing Corp., Commodity Credit Corp., Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corp...