Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amending it 'Or their revolutionary right 'To dismember or overthrow it!' Whether or not A. Lincoln would use the above words right now, he did use them in his First Inaugural address in 1861. Proletarian Composer Earl Robinson has set them to music. And this week they will be used again at the opening of the Tenth National Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. For the benefit of a Columbia Broadcasting System audience and as many thousands as can jam into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden a chorus...
...Communist Party of the U. S. A. upholds the democratic achievements of the American people. It opposes with all its power any clique, group, circle, faction, or party, which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine, weaken or overthrow, any or all institutions of American democracy...
Logically a person believing in the overthrow of the government by violence should not be permitted to participate in the management of that government. Communists who admit that validity of this principle would apply it to Fascists; Fascists would apply it to Communists; most people would apply it to both. But practical people would oppose the action of the legislature because they realize that the overthrow of American capitalism would probably result from something a trifle more serious than the appointment of a communist to the key position of confidential examiner in the office of the Borough President of Manhattan...
Revolutionary Crisis: Since last November, in view of the great quantities of arms, ammunition and bombs seized by the French Secret Service, it has been certain that there are in France sizable groups determined to overthrow the Republic by force. Proletarian leaders have not hesitated to accuse Socialist Vice-Premier Blum and Middle-Class Premier Chautemps of restraining the Ministry of Interior from making use of evidence which might condemn two Rightists, whose names are household words in France, the No. 1 munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen...
...preachers of sedition, with or without violence. The Indian National Congress, which opposes Federation tooth & nail, is afraid that if the native states are permitted to come in under the Constitution the entire All-India Federation will be a setup so rigid that it may take generations to overthrow the Rajas, Maharajas and Nawabs. And the 3,000.000 members of the Congress-whatever may be Saint Gandhi's mild views-believe Congress agitators who tell them that the lands of the princes and all large Indian landowners sooner or later are going to be taken and given...