Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole cleanup movement: land reform. Instead of getting started on the breakup of large estates, Maher's Cabinet had hemmed & hawed, appointed one committee after another to "study" the question. Prices were still skyhigh, favoritism was still common in government promotion lists, and Wafdist politicians plotted to overthrow the new regime...
After a six-month trial in Los Angeles, 14 Pacific Coast chieftains last week were found guilty of advocating overthrow of the Government by force and violence...
...that Mossadegh, the lachrymose Lion of Abadan, controls the Iranian army, as well as the Teheran mobs, the Shah is virtually a prisoner, whom Mossadegh could easily, but probably will not, overthrow...
...Soviet-trained and a seasoned jailbird. The other was led by Laszlo Rajk (rhymes with yoick), boss of underground Hungarian Reds during Nazi occupation. Two years later, Rajk was ousted from the party, "confessed" to being a spy, traitor and informer, and to plotting with Tito to overthrow the Communist regime. Disposition: hanged. Now boss: Rakosi...
...riot was only the beginning, and called on the party to resist the "black wall of police sticks and carbines." It sounded the tocsin for a bigger demonstration. At the same time party headquarters sent out orders which made it appear that the demonstration would be an attempt to overthrow the government (see INTERNATIONAL...