Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot flat and mostly Indian, a pocket wildcat of a man, President Sanchez Cerro was wounded in five places and lost three fingers of his left hand when he seized the spitting muzzle of a machine gun in his bare hands and turned it on the Government forces in overthrowing President Billinghurst in 1914. In 1921 they shot him full of holes again when he captured Lima in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow President Leguia. In semi-exile abroad he served with the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco, was wounded; served with the Italian army in 1925, took advanced military...
...Cuban students as a class are powerless to overthrow the Machado autocracy and it is suicidal for them to continue their terroristic reprisals. To effect the proper change and to guarantee the Cubans their own independence demands the prompt intervention of the American government. In 1929 when the sugar interests were snubbed by the acting Cuban regime, the U.S. Marines went storming down to protect the American interests, and in the present case, when deeper principles are a stake, there is every reason that the American government should once more take definite action...
...then-Machado has a nightmare that some day Revolution may overthrow him. To placate his nightmare he is stern with unimportant revolutionaries, kind to important ones who may some day rule in his stead. Last week he pardoned Antonio Mendieta Lizaur, 18, nephew of an important Revolutionist, Col. Carlos Mendieta. In 1932 young Mendieta Lizaur was sentenced to eight years in jail on a charge of planting a bomb in the La Salle College laboratory. Last week he planned to join his uncle and Cuba's famed exile colony in Miami, Fla. (TIME, April 10), to help fan Revolution...
...muscular power to sell must sell it in competition with mechanical power." Technocracy is the explanation of those who have not the brains to do what a machine cannot do, and Communism is the system made to foster these classes and keep them in power. Obviously the machine will overthrow such a class...
...Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., black son of a black father who once bossed the Georgia G. O. P., made things no easier for his client. Loudly recalling that 3,265 Negroes had been lynched in the South since 1885, he cried: "That looks to me like an attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States. Suppose this defendant is a Communist. Did you ever hear of a Communist burning anyone at the stake...