Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White-haired Artist-Author Rockwell Kent, long accused of sympathy with Communism, made an active show at the end of Angler McCarthy's line.* The artist tried (but failed) to get into the record a statement accusing McCarthy himself of plotting to overthrow the Government by "force and violence" in favor of fascism. Kent admitted sending $800 to the Communist Party in 1933-the money, however, was rent paid for his house by an "insulting" tenant and he had only given it to the Communists because it seemed the most "hateful thing" to do with it. Personally, he said...
...Hawaii last week, Jack Hall, regional director of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, five other aloha-shirted defendants and the wife of one of them were found guilty of Communist plotting to overthrow the Government. The verdict brought to 51 the number of U.S. Reds convicted under the Smith...
...team of prodding sheep dogs, to press the movement past and on to other places. But at Leipziger and Friedrich Strasse, where the chief government buildings stood, the mob's suppressed feelings broke out. Anger scudded in like a rain cloud. "Freedom!" they chanted. "Freedom!" "We demand the overthrow of the government." "We want the overthrow of Ulbricht...
...would not return to work even after a Russian officer offered to free the arrested men if they would go back. Joined by strikers from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted for overthrow of the Communist regime, tore down Communist posters, ripped party pins off Communist lapels. They marched on Brandenburg proper, stormed the city prison and freed political prisoners. They spotted the district attorney, seized him, handcuffed him, threw him atop a police car and beat him to death. A "people...
...executive session and would reexamine the case of Dirk J. Struik, suspended professor of Mathematics. The decision on these two is still pending. None is actually expected yet on Struik, who was not called by the committee since he is still awaiting trial on a charge of conspiracy to overthrow the government by force and violence...