Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence a paddy-wagon mate on the ride to Federal Detention Headquarters was Ukrainian-born Irving Potash, 55, one of the eleven top Reds convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. Deported by his own choice last year after serving 41 months of a five-year sentence, Potash mysteriously re-entered the U.S. (he refused to say how). Arrested in January, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for illegal entry...
...testing question asked about any German general these days is where was he on July 20, 1944. That was the date of the German generals' attempt on Hitler's life. In Paris, as chief of staff in France. Speidel was intimately involved in the plot to overthrow Hitler, but like his superior. Rommel, disapproved of assassinating him. When the assassination attempt failed, Speidel was one of those cross-questioned by SS interrogators but handled himself so skill fully that Hitler never got enough on him to hang him with the rest...
...After a six-day "trial," Freedom Fighters Joszef Dudas, who led an attack on the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in October, and Janos Szabo, who led a stand against superior Soviet forces in the battle of Budapest's Moscow Square, were found guilty of "trying to overthrow the Hungarian People's Democracy," and executed. The Hungarian Writers' Union, which had sparked the revolution, and the National Association of Journalists were dissolved. Two writers were indicted for having circulated underground newssheets. In preparation for a series of show trials, the legal system was being purged of prosecutors...
...case of Dirk Struik, M.I.T. faculty member accused in 1951 of advocating the violent overthrow of the government, was re-opened yesterday when the Massachusetts Commission on Communism asked M.I.T. to review the "question of Professor Dirk Struick's fitness to be a member of the faculty...
...authors contend that total war between the Communist and non-Communist worlds, while possible, is too theoretical to permit reasonable speculations. They also dismiss the likelihood, except in the satellite countries, of the overthrow of modern totalitarian regimes by internal revolution...