Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
Even in 1920, when there sprang up in Denmark a campaign to overthrow the monarchy, set up a Republic, King Christian continued to ride through excited crowds in Copenhagen's streets. The movement came to nothing because the most rabid Republicans decided that popular King Christian would be the only possible President, concluded they might as well retain him as King. On May 14, two days after George VI's Coronation in London, comes the Silver Jubilee of Christian X. Representing Denmark at Westminster Abbey will be Crown Prince Frederik, who will then fly back by specially chartered...
...This is a revolutionary government. Its purpose is to overthrow the Nan king Government by political means. We welcome and hope for co-operation from other regimes in China, but this must be based on friendship with our good neighbors, Japan and Manchukuo...
SPANISH PRELUDE - Jenny Ballou- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Sensitive, multi-charactered story portraying the intellectual and middle-class Spanish acquaintances of an American woman during the three years preceding King Alfonso's overthrow...
...match played in Boston, the Harvard Club defeated the Varsity "B" squash team, 3-2. Daniel F. Keyes '37 defeated E. S. Underwood. A. F. Wordsworth of the Harvard Club overthrow Robert O. Easton '37, as W. R. Bascom trounced Peter F. Cunningham '39. Carl S. Oakman, Jr. '38 beat J. Cross. The crucial game of the match was the one between J. W. Appeal of the Harvard Club and Hendrik DcKruif '38. Appel won in three out of four...