Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bail." The delegates cut their national committee down from 50 to 13 members. Reason: twelve of the party's top dogs are already under indictment for conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government; the party leadership would be immobilized if the Department of Justice should take it into its head to move in on all 50. Said one: "That would be an awful lot of bail to have to put up." It was also better to keep a reserve of bosses under cover. Right out in the open (and one of those under indictment) was 67-year-old William...
...understand you undertake to overthrow our undertaking...
Despite all the shooting that has been done at the U.S. Communist Party, the real question has never been decided: Is the party, as many Americans have long believed, a tightly controlled, Moscow-directed conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the U.S. Government?* But last week, after more than a year of secret hearings, a federal grand jury sitting in Manhattan fired the first shot of a new barrage. Its charge was a collective indictment of the twelve men who run the U.S. Communist Party-its entire national board-as conspirators "dedicated to the Marxist-Leninist principles of the overthrow and destruction...
...patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...
Such an intention does not include overthrow of an enemy's political system unless the system is an obvious threat to international security. Says the commission: "No nation has the right forcibly to impose upon another the political system that it fancies, even if that system be dubbed 'democracy...