Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Dirk J. Struik of M.I.T. was accused of teaching the violent overthrow of the government of the United States from two quarters this week...
...Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
...Communist Party had been around the U.S. for 30 years, yet the Federal Government had never before tried to prosecute it for conspiracy. It was nonsense to say that communism's "scientific socialism" ("Much easier to understand than relativity," he declared) taught the violent overthrow of the U.S. The party, which numbered 70,000 members, merely practiced "the real principles of Marxism-Leninism...
...editor of the Daily Worker in 1945 when the party shifted from its wartime policy of getting along with capitalism to a postwar policy of trying to overthrow the U.S. The shift was dictated by Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, Ukraine delegate to the U.N., who at the time...
...member of the Committee of Education, Representative Putnam, asked Sullivan who would determine when a teacher was advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence. He quoted a Harvard professor, whom he did not name, as saying, "I like the spirit of rebellion." Putnam asked Sullivan whether Harvard could be penalized for such a statement under the terms of H442...