Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current Communist mythology, where Khrushchev's overthrow of Molotov & Co. is said to represent a triumph of "liberalization" over "Stalinism," more than one Eastern European satrap is sitting on a populace so restless that the last word he wants to hear is "liberalization...
Meaning of Organization. The Supreme Court's other major narrowing of the Smith Act was based on the meaning of the word "organize." The Smith Act specifies that whoever "organizes" groups dedicated to overthrow of the Government by force or violence is in violation of the law. Justice Department lawyers argued that the meaning of "organize" included such usual Communist Party activities as "the recruiting of new members and the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes and other units"; in fact, said the Government, some of the defendants were actually titled Communist...
...advocated Marxism at a university lecture?) put to him by the New Hampshire attorney general acting on authorization from the state legislature. The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld Sweezy's conviction for contempt on grounds that 1) "there exists a potential menace from those who would overthrow the Government by force and violence," and 2) "the need for the legislature to be informed on so elemental a subject as the self-preservation of Government outweighed the deprivation of constitutional rights that occurred in the process...
...million people, including the counterrevolutionaries. It does not belong to the Communist Party." Then, in a final access of daring, Ko warned the Communists what would happen if they did not mend their ways and do something for the Chinese people: "The masses will beat you down, kill you, overthrow...
Concern for Leftists. The court virtually invited journalistic fulminations with its Watkins-case decision, curbing the investigatory powers of Congress, and its Smith Act ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades...