Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate's five reservations respecting U. S. adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8) were debated furiously at Geneva last week. The debaters were, of course, the representatives of the World Court Adherent Powers, who had assembled (TIME, Sept. 6) at the invitation of the League of Nations. All present expressed their good will toward the U. S. and passed the first four* reservations without notable demur. On the fifth reservation, however, the conferees became deadlocked, as had been anticipated from the day this reservation was drafted. The fifth reservation is notoriously the "joker" inserted by the Senate...
...sooner was this stratagem for maintaining the Dictator in power announced than the artillery officer's clique (whose prerogatives he has curtailed) fomented mutinies at Segovia and Valladolid...
What is high treason? The learned and venerable Professor Triantafyllppoulos, Minister of Justice, astonished international jurists last week by declaring that one who seizes the temporal power by violence has committed high treason if the people as a whole are subsequently dissatisfied with his government, but that the same act does not constitute high treason if the populace subsequently approves...
...with a definite purpose. The recently deposed dictator of Greece, General Pangalos is soon to be brought to trial, and it is intended to convict him of high treason. At the same time the present dictator of Greece, General Kondylis, must be purged of treasonable taint, though he seized power (TIME, Aug. 30) by exactly the same violent means as did General Pangalos (TIME, July...
...continuous occupation of the capital of Nicaragua for 13 years (1912-25). No sooner were the marines withdrawn (TIME, July 13, 1925) than General Chamorro overthrew the Liberal Administration elected during the U. S. occupation and has carried on as "President" ever since though recognized by no foreign power...