Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic by a 232,000-vote plurality. Even the Republicans there attributed their defeat to the disfavor of the national administration. In 1928 Kentucky was President Hoover's with 177.000 votes to spare. Last week it was lost to a Republican nominee for Governor by 71.523 votes. A spectacular overturn in a hidebound Republican district in Michigan turned the House of Representatives Democratic. Connecticut, carried by President Hoover by 44,574 votes three years ago, saw its two largest cities swing into the Democratic column. When Mr. Hoover entered the White House, his party had 56 Senators, 267 Congressmen...
...approached, the roundheaded, 73-year-old man in the Vatican who 40 years ago was an energetic priest fond of mountain-climbing, and who since has shown himself one of the great Statesman-Popes, beheld the industrial and financial worlds again seething with a great unrest. In Russia the overturn had come, violently, and Mother Church had suffered there with Capitalism. Throughout the world, even Capitalists were saying, "Capitalism is not perfect. It must mend itself and mankind." Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, perceived that the appropriate moment again had come for Mother Church to announce...
...society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
...hand, insisted that Mr. Root had used the loth Amendment just as it was used by the Sprague defense, and that the Supreme Court, upholding the 18th Amendment against Mr. Root's attack, had quashed this line of argument. The case chiefly relied on by the Government to overturn the Clark ruling was one from Ohio involving a referendum on a constitutional amendment. Said the Supreme Court: "The method of ratification is left to the choice of Congress. Both methods of ratification, by legislature or convention, call for action by deliberative assemblies of the people which it was assumed...
...American Legionaries never saw front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor poisoning; one Legionary and his wife died of this cause. Patients were treated for wounds contracted from being hit by, sitting on, falling on, tripping on, flasks. Massachusetts General Hospital ran out of headache powders...