Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four judges hearing the case, Chief Justice Edmund W. Flynn and Justice Francis B. Condon, both Democrats, were elected to the Supreme Court during Rhode Island's infamous "Bloodless Revolution of 1935." That year, when Republican candidates narrowly won two disputed senate seats to give the G.O.P. a 22-to-20 control of the state senate, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Robert E. Quinn refused to administer oaths to the two close Republican victors. This left the senate in a 20-to-20 tie, which Quinn broke with his own vote, to order a closed, Democratic-controlled recount of the contested...
Less than 24 hours after he spoke came news that 4,000 men of the army's Banteng (Buffalo) Division had seized control of Central Sumatra in a bloodless revolt. Organizer of the coup was Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein, an ex-guerrilla leader who was called "the Tiger of Central Sumatra" for his exploits against the Dutch during the revolution. Husein turned over titular authority of the region to 37-year-old Colonel Simbolon, a Dutch-educated Protestant who only a year ago was Mohammed Hatta's candidate for chief of staff. Simbolon announced that he would rule...
...Dime?" the national anthem. In the union lexicon, the term "Big Business" remains shorthand for everything that is evil. Yet the most substantial victories won by unions at the bargaining table have come from the giants of industry. It was the United States Steel Corp. that gave unionism a bloodless foothold in the mass production industries 20 years ago. It was Ford and General Motors that capitulated to the "guaranteed annual wage." At every intermediate period since the New Deal, unions have relied on "Big Business" to set the pattern of labor gains. The result of cordial...
...royalty are often unfair or inaccurate, e.g., press accounts of last month's coming-of-age party for the Duke of Kent included varying descriptions of the "birthday cake," though no cake was served. Editors argue that the public wants to read about human beings rather than the bloodless functionaries described in palace handouts. Britain's newspapers are still widely torn between deference and defiance in chronicling the crown. Last year, the lip-smacking Mirror gave almost a whole page to a peekaboo shot of Princess Margaret, in a low-necked gown, stooping to receive a bouquet...
...HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, VOL. II, THE NEW WORLD, by Winston S. Churchill (433 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $6), rolls with Churchillian eloquence over those troubled years between the first great Tudors. including Bloody Mary (the last Roman Catholic Queen of England), and the bloodless Revolution of 1688 (which established Britain in a truce of class, power and tradition). Churchill presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology...