Word: overturn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN, Conn. (UP)--Yale University students and "townies" joined forces tonight in an effort to overturn an automobile containing Earl Browder, Communist Party general secretary, after he had made a speech in a campus building despite opposition of veterans' organizations and refusal of other universities to permit his appearance on their grounds...
...passably good terms with Yugoslavia and Rumania, but detested Eduard Benes, the Czech Foreign Minister, who tried to get his scalp in the 1925 French banknote forgery scandal involving the Count's close associates. Count Bethlen's great dream was a bloc of "revisionist" States to overturn the Versailles and Trianon settlements...
...country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn of the present status in which the "cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant of the cook," thundered she. Michigan's Dr. Dora H. Stockman read a poem she had dedicated to A. C. W. W. Last verse: Great...
...figures are available concerning instructors holding one-year appointments. It has always been the policy of the College to maintain a healthy overturn so that the lower brackets of the Faculty will not become stagnated. This year, as in past years, a large number of these instructors are leaving for home or for new posts...
Latest returns of the Crimson-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt policies total 1,911 voting "yes" and 1,024 voting "no." Results from seventeen college newspaper polls continue to reveal an astonishing overturn of student sentiment in favor of Roosevelt. Figures follow. Univ. Yes No Total Harvard 1,911 1,024 2,935 Yale 1,283 830 2,113 Cornell 961 645 1,606 Brown 241 180 421 Univ. of Va. 160 68 228 Univ. of Wis. 374 148 522 New York Univ...