Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, unhorsed in the Senate battle over civil rights, came a cropper again, this time in the fight in the House to overthrow the Taft-Hartley Act. Harried from every side, his congressional forces were trapped between a softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Administration's moderately toughened version of the Wagner...
Judge Medina agreed wholeheartedly: "There is the issue in the case. You and the other defendants here say: 'This was all a perfectly innocent thing. We never advocated or taught . . . overthrow of the Government by force or violence at all. All we wanted to do was to bring about certain salutary social reforms, and to do it by a perfectly legitimate party . . . ' That, as I see it, goes right to the heart of the matter...
...down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write his last words. He admonished his wife: "Please marry again. Do not remember me any more." He instructed his nephew: "Be filial to your grandmother so as to redeem my crimes...
...sixth, Hank Mueller opened with a single, went to second on a hit by Ray Matthews, took third on Godin's error, and stole home. Mueller tripled in the eighth and scored on an overthrow of third by Charlie Lucas...
...crime, the culprit, and the penalties since the public hearings were held on the bill. Under the new wording, "teaching the doctrines of atheistic communism" is the offense for which teachers would receive a fine, a year in jail, and banishment from the profession. This phrase replaces "advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence." Either version, however, could conceivably be applied to large bodies of people who did not hold the same views as the Commissioner of Education or the majority of the legislature...