Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they see evidence that all is not won . . . [Such critics] have propagated a common delusion that democracy is the absence of dictators. They have thoughtlessly given dictatorship the positive and democracy the negative position; and on that basis they have assumed that democracy could be attained by the revolutionary overthrow of dictators. That, in a schoolboy's misconception of our history, is the meaning of 1776. The crusading spirit finds it easier to be against the infidel than for the faith...
...when he was listening to an American Legion radio program in which Communists seized the Government. Hansen, who carries the town's mail, is also the local Legion commander and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. He got his fellow Legionnaires interested. In store windows, posters proclaimed the overthrow of the "capitalistic government" and the establishment of the United Soviet Republics of America. James F. Green, chairman of the Legion's National Americanism Commission, came up from Omaha to help...
Feinberg's measure directed the State Board of Regents to draw up a list of "subversive" organizations (those advocating overthrow) and to set regulations for disqualifying teachers belonging to these groups...
...Appellate Division. Ruling only on the suit brought by eight taxpayers, Justice William B. Carswell asserted that there is "no constitutional right to be a public employee," and said that it was within the powers of the legislature to "protect the public service" from those who advocate forceful overthrow of the government...
Under the Mississippi act, a subversive organization is one "which engages in or advocates, abets, advises, or teaches, or a purpose of which is to engage in or advocate, abet, advise, or teach activitie intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter, or to assist in the overthrow, destruction, or alteration of the constitutional form of government of the United States, or of the State of Mississippi ... and to establish in place thereof any form of government the direction and control of which is to be vested in ... the domination or control of any foreign government, organization, or individual; but does...