Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civil virtue. The old General is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country. It has been charged that no project, from cattle breeding to oil leases, can exist without payment of a personal tribute to El Benemerito. All attempts to overthrow his government are instantly and brutally suppressed. Venezuela's pride, her highway system, has been built largely by the labor of political prisoners...
Brave, my dear editor, for having shown the underlying current of your policy to aid and abet the movement to overthrow our blessed institutions, yes, to undermine the very roots of our government...
Since the fall of Machado there has been much talk about the part Cuban students played in his overthrow. The largest, most effective organization in the revolution was the ABC. It started among young graduates of Havana University, fought Machado terrorism with counter-terrorism by cells of ten men each. Its effectiveness brought older, stabler heads into the ABC who took over its direction, set up the moderate government of Carlos de Cespedes. Older than the ABC is the Students' Directorate which has no prudent grey-head members, wants a Cuban Utopia here and now. It backs and directs...
...Ninos is the son of Dr. Eduardo Chibas, a member of the de Cespedes Cabinet which they helped overthrow. In Dr. Chibas' house last week young Chibas and his 29 young friends of the Directorio sat down on 30 chairs drawn in a big circle. As to a seminar in Elementary Social Problems, Ambassador Welles and his financial adviser, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. walked in, sat down in the centre of the circle. It was the first time The Boys had ever agreed to listen to Mr. Welles...
...onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth will observe discipline. . . . The forces of the Army will be used to protect all interests against any attempts...