Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without ambition to hold office, but we feel the responsibility of seeing that China is restored to normalcy, after which we will resign." Up Peking staffs ran the five-barred (red, yellow, blue, white & black) flag of the original Chinese Republic, founded in 1912 at Peking after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the staffs on which from 1927 to 1937 flew the red, white & blue flag of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking Government...
...secret service, had returned that morning from a confidential mission abroad. He had become Walsingham's agent after a term in jail, had wormed his way into intimacy with the leaders of the Catholic party, intercepted their secret correspondence with Mary when they were plotting Elizabeth's overthrow...
...defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South Carolina's attempted secession; collection of a long-outstanding debt of 25 million francs from France by the simple device of threatening to dispatch warships; his ungloved fight to overthrow the Bank of the United States; his support of Protégé Sam Houston in the fight to annex Texas ("about which," says Author James, "the less said by Jackson partisans the better...
Testified Captain James L. Mooney: "In my judgment the whole thing was inspired by communists. The purpose of communists is to overthrow the Government and attack policemen, and they are getting money from Russia to help them...
...brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with a conspiracy to overthrow Communism by helping Germany and Japan defeat Russia...