Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the King that the situation was even graver than he thought!" flashed former Prime Minister Jose Sanchez Guerra, leader of an abortive plot two years ago to overthrow the Dictatorship (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929). "His Majesty came forward and clasped me in his arms, saying, 'It is good to see you, Jose...
Simultaneous overthrow of the Soviet system in Russia and establishment of a Soviet system in England by Parliamentary decree; also, discovery of life on Mars through the new 200-in. telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Kansas City Star's Editor H. J. Haskell 1) Discovery of a new source of power through the release of atomic energy; 2) Announcement from a responsible source of a cure for cancer; 3) Incontrovertible proof of a spirit message from Conan Doyle...
...temper Red justice with Red mercy. During the previous night, at 11:27 p. m., the Supreme Court justices (including two workmen) had brought in their verdict upon the eight engineers accused of plotting with prominent foreigners (see p. 20) and specifically with the French General Staff to overthrow the Soviet State (TIME, Nov. 24; Dec. 8). With a glass of hot tea at his elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour how extremely guilty the Court had found the prisoners, then paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less...
...prominent Frenchmen and Englishmen accused at the Red Trial in Moscow of trying to overthrow the Soviet State (see above) only the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Privy Councillor of His Majesty George V, had admitted the charge up to last week...
Likewise in Amsterdam were representatives of Visp (Vereenigde Javasuiker Producenten) the Dutch sugar trust which controls 90% of Java's sugar industry. Intrigue and plotting marked the conferences. From the Cuban Nationalist party came dire messages warning the Dutch that soon a revolution will overthrow the Cuban Government, repudiate all of last week's deals. Busily hurrying around was Ivy Ledbetter Lee, famed Wall Street publicist. Mr. Chadbourne fought off bronchitis to attend the meetings. Java at first was recalcitrant. Production would be restricted next year, said the Visp men, but the future depended on consumption...