Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve men and four women were arrested in New York and one man in Pittsburgh. They and four others-missed in the first day's roundup -were indicted under the Smith Act by a New York federal grand jury, on charges of conspiring to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. They were the second echelon of the party's high command. Presumably they would take up the U.S. party reins when the eleven Communist bosses (convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn...
Upholding for the first time the constitutionality of the 1940 Smith Act, Justice Vinson held: "An attempt to overthrow the Government by force, even though doomed from the outset because of inadequate numbers of power of the revolutionists, is a sufficient evil for the Congress to prevent...
...Labor's left-wing firebrands, went barnstorming in Lancashire. For the time being, Attlee had saved his government. But the fact remains that Bevan. and a handful of followers, by voting with the Conservatives or by abstaining in a division in the House of Commons, could overthrow the Attlee government any time they chose...
Montserrat, which enjoyed a brief Broadway run last year in an English adaptation by Lillian Hellman, hammers hard against the brutal Spanish tyranny that Bolivar battled to overthrow. (Sample: "You live under the domination of men who are ferocious and pitiless. Do you have no pride? Do you not want to rebel against assassins?") Members of the audience, all of whom had been living for 18 months under a state of siege imposed by the Conservative government, loudly applauded every reference to liberty. One man even rose and shouted, "Viva la libertad...
...constructive in it has long since been achieved in such laws as the 1940 Smith Act and the 1935 Teachers Oath Act. Even though these laws have not brought in all those "subversives" that Dorgan finds under every ivy leaf, they take care of anyone who advocates the violent overthrow of the government...