Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having overturned the government, good revolutionists dearly love to overturn the calendar. In 1793 French Republicans, flushed with political success, changed the names of all the months from the prosaic January, February, March to the more descriptive Pluviōse (rainy) Ventōse (windy), Germinal (budding), etc. They divided each month into three "weeks" of ten days each, and dated everything from the First day of the Year 1 (Sept. 22, 1792), the date of the proclamation of the first French Republic. The French Republican calendar lasted nearly 15 years, died a natural death during the reign of Napoleon...
...Conference was almost disrupted when Dry Governors attempted to overturn its do-nothing tradition and have resolutions adopted calling for more law enforcement, more support of President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North Carolina's Governor Gardner. What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina in private was not recorded but their public attitudes emphatically tended toward lengthening the historic interval between libations...
...minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...
...running on heavy schedules, with Model A carrying on the tradition of illustrious Model T, with steady growth of Ford European companies, Henry Ford is well pleased with the automotive business and vigorously engaged in making his company bigger, better than ever before. Heavy, however, has been the personnel overturn at the Ford plant, particularly executive personnel. Detroit has become almost blasé concerning appointments, rearrangements and resignations among the men who help make the Ford...
...field several times, making preparations. Exactly what went on in the cabin is not known. But the windows were put down to avoid flying glass, and Col. Lindbergh undoubtedly packed cushions around Miss Morrow. According to one plausible report, he said to her: "When we land, we'll overturn. Don't be afraid...