Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest against two bills recently introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature favoring the removal from the ballot of the Communist Party and any other groups advocating forceful overthrow of the government, the legislative committee of the Harvard Liberal Union sent a delegation to the Assembly yesterday...
Next day Dr. Harold G. Campbell, superintendent of the city's elementary and high schools, followed suit, announced that he, too, would fire any Communist teacher. Basis: a new State law, still untested, which bars from public office a member of a group seeking forcible overthrow of the Government...
...Madam Perkins but Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson. And up Mr. Jackson's sleeve were a couple of snickersnees: 1) a new, detailed FBI report on Bridges; 2) a new law (Alien Registration Act of 1940) making any alien deportable who ever belonged to a party preaching violent overthrow of the U. S. Government. (Dean Landis had to rule only on whether Bridges was a Communist Party member at the time 1938 deportation proceedings against him were begun...
...Juan as king. Monarchist-minded Boss Franco is also Axis-minded, and for this reason he had nothing to say about Alfonso's gesture last week. Meanwhile in Mexico fugitive Spanish Republicans announced that they had banded with a cabal of anti-Franco Monarchists for Franco's overthrow. If the Spanish die were cast, it had not stopped rolling...
...went to war, what would we be fighting for ? Would it be to overthrow Hitler so that we could embrace Stalin...