Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history of Maryland's oath requirement goes back to November, 1948, when the state constitution was amended to bar from office any "member of an organization that advocates overthrow of the United States or Maryland through force and violence." To implement this amendment, a commission appointed by the Maryland Senate and headed by Frank B. Ober--a Harvard Law School graduate--drew up a bill designed to keep "subversives" out of the government. (Ober was also busy attacking Harvard at this time for tolerating the political views of some of its faculty members...
...valo's followers fell under the influence of anti-yanqui propaganda put out by local Communists, and accepted Red leadership in their trade unions. Arévalo gave all moral and material aid he could to the Caribbean Legion's attempts to overthrow rightist dictatorships in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic...
...Rawalpindi. In Karachi, they arrested Brigadier M. A. Latif, commander of a brigade in Quetta, near the Afghan border. In Lahore, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, editor of the Pakistan Times, the country's second largest English-language newspaper, was taken into custody. All were accused of trying to overthrow the government...
...League of Women Voters. Mrs. Ross arranged her papers with an air of brisk efficiency. In a clear voice she explained that the new law would not take care of anything that is not covered by the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a crime to advocate overthrow of the government. "But," said Mrs. Ross, "we are not entitled to deny any group a place on the ballot, or the right to express their opinions...
This year's bill, far more inclusive than those in the past years, would permit the Attorney General to investigate any group for possible subversive activities. Any groups directly or indirectly advocating treason or the violent overthrow of the government would be illegal...