Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given him "encouragement in carrying out the policies he has so courageously announced in behalf of the observance and enforcement of the law." The General Assembly, with Prohibition in its thoughts, viewed "with indignation and alarm the efforts of those who are seeking by sinister and subtle means to overthrow the Constitution, whether by intrigue, evasion or nullification." The Church "will stand squarely against any proposal that would in any way invalidate or weaken the outlawry of the [liquor] traffic." To approve this the 1,000 commissioners?half ministers, half elders?at Cincinnati stood up and yea-ed most heartily...
Chief agitator for the new Red hunt was New York's big (6 ft. 4 in.; 210 Ib.) Congressman Hamilton Fish, onetime Harvard footballer. Loudly he warned the House that Communists were seizing U. S. schools, were plotting to overthrow the Government. He blamed the Third International for labor troubles in the textile industry of the South. He cited the charges of Soviet propaganda made against Amtorg Trading Corp. by New York City's Police Commissioner Whalen (TIME, May 12), now retired. He demanded the immediate deportation to Russia of all alien Communists, seriously recommended that U. S. citizens favoring...
...resolution, put his own name on it. To be investigated were "Communist propaganda in the U. S. . . . The Communist party of the U. S. and all affiliated organizations . . . the Communist International, the Amtorg Trading Corp., The Daily Worker and all groups or individuals who . . . advise, teach or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the U. S. or attempt to undermine our Republican form of government...
...countrymen stand up and work for the Chiang's overthrow," he continued, "and I, Yen Hsishan, will do my best to assist in the consummation of this task...