Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance, the voter swung at home-grown subversives. Maryland approved the Ober law, once ruled unconstitutional by a state circuit court. It requires a loyalty oath from state employees and candidates, sets up a maximum penalty of $20,000 fine and 20 years in prison for attempting or advocating overthrow of the U.S.-or of the Free State of Maryland. Michigan approved a sweeping definition of subversion, authorized its legislature to take up anti-commie laws from there...
...Homburg. After President Roosevelt's visit in 1934, he shrieked: "Cowards, you should have received Roosevelt with bullets but you greeted him with flowers." In 1936 one of his terrorists assassinated the island police chief. As a result of the murder, Albizu was arrested for conspiring to overthrow...
...Brazilian army rose in a bloodless coup to overthrow Dictator Getulio Vargas. Ever since, the date has been celebrated as a kind of second independence day,* with speeches about democracy and grateful bows to the army for ending 15 years of strong-arm rule. This year, with presidential election tallies showing Getulio Vargas leading almost two to one, Brazilians wondered whether or not the Oct. 29 "Week of Democracy" would be observed. Last week the army, navy and police gave them the answer: since no one had ordered any festivities, there would be no celebration...
...city councilmen wanted to fire him at once, but Duxbury was not a dangerous Communist, he calmly explained-merely a Communist in his own little way. He didn't belong to the party ("They won't take me in") and didn't want to overthrow the Government ("It will collapse from its own rottenness"); he had merely registered to vote as a Communist...
...supplements the reportorial Voice of America. R.F.E. beams speeches of exiled Eastern European leaders across the Iron Curtain, satirizes Communism, and broadcasts music and folklore new banned by the Rods. It is a mouthpiece of the democratic left, the exiles who legitimately governed most of Eastern Europe between the overthrow of the quisling governments and the Communist coups...