Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the overthrow of the shogunate in 1867 and the restoration of power to the Imperial House, the 200-year-old banking house of Mitsui, which had backed the new Emperor Meiji, emerged as the most potent financial force in new Japan. Masuda, now an exporter of rice, tea and silk, joined forces with the Mitsui family in 1876 and launched Mitsui Bussan Kai-sha (Mitsui & Co., Ltd.), the trading firm which became the largest single unit of the vast Mitsui empire...
...important choice. Either they may vote approval of Daladier's strike-suppression, or they may rebuke his dictatorial methods and call for a national plebiscite on the fate of the forty-hour week. The deputies have no other leader to whom they can turn, and so they cannot overthrow the Daladier government. Yet in the present crisis they must not abdicate their functions. The decision which the "deux chambres" make is a crucial one: a rebuke to Daladier may save French democracy, a ratification of his actions will betray...
...Strachey was wrathful because the Department of State had canceled his visa while he was on the high seas. The State Department maintained that it had canceled the visa on evidence of fraud: after swearing to the U.S. Consulate-General in London that he did not advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence, John Strachey had become an official of the British Communist Party. Mr. Strachey denounced this charge as false, demanded a hearing from the State Department. The Department frostily agreed to grant one in London. But the American Civil Liberties Union and other outraged...
...reported last week that: 1) the Commissariats for Food, Machine Building and Purchases had been purged and given new heads; 2) the Commissariats for the Navy, Trade and Agriculture are soon due for purging; 3) ten officials of the Azerbaijan Agriculture Commissariat were executed for "plotting to overthrow the Soviet Government and sabotage animal husbandry...
Rightists both in Mexico and the U. S. hailed General Cedillo's defiance as a potential threat to overthrow the Cárdenas regime. Mexico's troubles over the oil expropriations and the resulting business collapse made this threat a likely possibility. So the President two months ago made an attempt to get General Cedillo away from his stronghold. He ordered the General to take over command of the military zone in Michoacán, Cárdenas' home state. General Cedillo, pleading illness, asked for a 45-day respite. Last week, his leave expired...