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Economic Intervention. Lastly, Dictator Stalin stated with apparent deadly seriousness that the Capitalistic Powers, having failed to penetrate Russia by "military intervention" in 1918-20, are now seeking to subvert the Soviet State by "economic intervention carried out by bourgeois technicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Speaks | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

First thunders against the Ronoto came, last week, in an announcement from the Ministry of Justice. This states that the Imperial Police had arrested in a secret raid 1,013 Opposition sympathizers of whom 26 were being held as Communists, on charges of attempting to subvert the state and throne. Followed at once, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, an order for the dissolution of the Ronoto, on the ground that it had become a Communist organization. In Japan, as everyone knows, the practice or preaching of Communism has been illegal since 1923. Suppressed along with the Ronoto, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ronoto | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...fight with all my strength the theories and ideas aiming to subvert, corrupt or disintegrate religion, love of country and family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fascist Oath | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Such a step is entirely in accordance with the constitution, despite the protests of some members of the judiciary who have asserted that no interference with the courts should be allowed. Only the courts, they said, were competent, and legally untrained minds would subvert justice to sentimentality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INEXPERT EXPERTS | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely crystallized as English must remain the same. The efforts of the language reformers to force doubtful or incorrect expressions into recognized good usage can have but one result--to subvert good usage itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD USAGE | 5/20/1927 | See Source »

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