Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these sanctions had brought the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh...
...Party-Lining Mathematics Professor Dirk J. Struik was suspended from Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being indicted for advocating the violent overthrow of the governments of the U.S. and Massachusetts (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951). When Struik's indictment was quashed last week as a result of the Supreme Court decision superseding state jurisdiction over sedition charges, M.I.T. promptly reinstated him. Explained an M.I.T. spokesman: "The Institute is [now] free to take such action as is appropriate...
...revocation of Struik's suspension came one day after an indictment charging him with conspiracy to overthrow the Federal and State governments was quashed in Middlesex Superior Court. The quashing resulted from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the Federal Smith Act superseded Massachusetts' subversives...
...train pulled into Seoul, it was met by a crowd of 20,000, many of them students from Korea University and the National University of Seoul, both anti-Rhee strongholds. "Overthrow Dictator Syngman Rhee," they shouted. Some climbed over the train and smashed windows in an effort to view Shinicky's body. Then, when the body was transferred to an ambulance, demonstrators snake-danced through the streets after...
...expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted to give Bricker his way. ¶ Approve, without debate in the Senate, a bill increasing the maximum Smith Act penalty for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. Government from ten years and $10,000 fine to 20 years and $20,000 fine. The House had already passed a similar bill, but the Senate added a provision barring any person convicted under the act from "holding any office of honor, trust or profit under...