Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Letters Department contained a protest from rich Reformer Roger Baldwin (then as now director of the American Civil Liberties Union), who advocated the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy; and an explanation from the Editors that by correcting a mistake Calvin Coolidge made about a baseball game, no slur was intended on the Chief Executive...
...chief quarry of Senator Copeland's hunt was one specific "Red": Harry Bridges, the Australian-born leader of Pacific Coast longshoremen. Harry Bridges' papers are in good order but like any alien he may be deported if he advocates overthrow of the Government by force. Therefore, Senator Copeland set out to prove he was a militant member of the Communist Party. Though most labor observers believe Bridges hews close to the Communist Party line, he denies being a party member. Dr. Copeland claims, however, that Mr. Bridges is in fact a member under the name...
...French government officials declared late last year that they had nipped in the bud a plot to overthrow the republic concocted by (1 the Cross of Fire fascists, 2 Jacques Doriot's Popular Party, 3 Andre Tardieu, 4 a hooded band of monarchists, 5 Communists...
This meant that the time had come for any forces in Germany which thought they could overthrow the Nazis to revolt or finally be crushed. At latest dispatches no revolt had occurred and none seemed in prospect, but the crisis had not passed without rumors that Army circles had "examined the advisability of announcing that a Jew had assassinated Hitler"-something which may yet be tried. On the surface of events in Berlin this week, Adolf Hitler had won by a single bold stroke a major victory of his career. It was particularly noticed that he had not made General...
...City) there is a police laboratory, part of whose job is the dissection of bombs and fireworks. There last week chemists, army officers and police gingerly examined 197 wooden packing cases, taken in a recent raid on branch headquarters of the Csar, a Rightist organization accused of plotting the overthrow of the French Republic (TIME, Dec. 6). The raid had also netted three Hotchkiss machine guns and 71 automatic rifles, but these cases contained hand grenades. The firing lever of each grenade was held down by a band of paper. Since many were damp, the paper bands seemed likely...