Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Children's Friend. During the press conference Angus Cameron and Albert Kahn walked around the room shaking their heads sadly, with Kahn muttering "jeez" whenever a newsman asked a harsh question. There were many such questions. Does Matusow think the Communist Party is a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government? Answer: "I have not found a conspiracy in the Communist Party." If Matusow knows the names of people who really are Communists, will he identify them? Answer: "It's not my business to go around knocking people, discrediting people." Is Matusow planning to skip the country? Answer...
...most significant objective--the creation of an effective parliamentary majority with which to govern France. Without that majority, any hopes for a revitalization of the long-stagnant French economy are bound to remain illusory. But far from spelling final defeat for Mendes-France's reform plans, his overthrow should offer a new and greater opportunity, if he acts wisely in his coming period of opposition...
...this amiable villainy centers around a red coach containing both three million dollars in gold and Denise Darcel. The gold, which the Mexican Emperor Maximillian is sending to Paris, has various attractions. It could help the patriotic Mexican rebels overthrow foreign dictatorship, it could help Cooper rebuild his southern plantation which was ruined in the Civil War, it could help Miss Darcel deck herself out in greater finery, and it could help Lancaster to be a bigger and better stinker. With so many unscrupulous scoundrels around, there is some difficulty finding anyone who really deserves the money...
...Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. A pianist and composer by profession, Amter was a tireless leader of demonstrations of the unemployed, frequently his party's candidate (unsuccessful) for U.S. Senator, governor and mayor of New York. He was included in the 1951 indictment (for conspiring to overthrow the Government by force) which sent 15 top Communists to jail, but was not brought to trial because of ill health...
People, said he, should dare to examine any philosophy preaching any doctrine short of the violent overthrow of the Government. If they were afraid of ideas, they were obviously afraid of themselves...