Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK--Seventeen members of the Christian Front pleaded not guilty today shortly after a federal grand jury indicted them on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government...
...There will be only one Government functioning - that one freely elected by the people!" cried Prime Minister de Valera in a fighting speech. In the lobbies of the Dail, meanwhile, it was whispered that I. R. A. plans were for a combined insurrection and war to overthrow the Governments of both Eire and Northern Ireland, sweep away the intervening fron tier and proclaim the Irish Republic - a move which Great Britain would certainly answer by sending an expeditionary force to Ireland as she did to crush the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916. Thus what members of the Dail faced last week...
...Perkins, Dean Landis had been over all the ground in the Bridges case once before. For eleven weeks in San Francisco last summer he presided at a hearing to determine whether alien, unnaturalized Mr. Bridges: 1) was a Red; 2) as such, belonged to a party which preached violent overthrow of the U. S. Government; 3) could therefore be deported from California to Australia, where he was born...
...first question thus: "The evidence does not permit the finding that Harry R. Bridges is either a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with that party. ..." Dean Landis added: "I have not deemed it necessary to find whether or not [the Communist Party] advocates, advises or teaches the overthrow of the Government of the U. S. by force or violence. . . ." He thus left the status of many a Communist alien as uncertain as ever, left Frances Perkins no practical choice but to rule against the deportation of Bridges...