Word: foment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are dark reasons why they may become so again. Of the 98 expelled, last week, three rank as at least second string great men in Russia: 1) Christian Rakovsky, recently recalled as Ambassador to France at the request of that nation, which feared him as a tireless fomenter of "The Revolution of the World Proletariat"; 2) Karl Radek, probably the most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau for world Communist propaganda); 3) Lev Borisovitch Kemenev, onetime holder of numerous offices approximating "cabinet rank" in the Soviet Government. That these men - and Zinoviev and Trotsky - have had their careers...
...comparatively conservative United Mine Workers some time ago, introducing company unions to replace branches of the A. F. of L. subsidiary. Wages having been depressed below the Jacksonville scale, the I. W. W., one of whose favorite phrases is "Yours till the next big strike," saw a chance to foment general unrest in Colorado after the success of their Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. That, plus the natural desire of laborers for higher pay, and the tendency of coaldiggers to suspect their washed-&-brushed employers, was the background of "wobbling" last week in Colorado...
...Athens the Army-Navy oligarchy which dominates Greece was in high foment last week at the triumph of a clique of ousted Royalist officers who have now managed to regain the commands which they lost when King George II was banished from Greece (TIME...
...well to follow. The votes of the citizens are the only statistics which can put an end to the welter of opposing figures, of can vasses and straw votes, stirred up by the wets and drys, and they might have some effect, as well, on the hidden forces which foment in Washington. As it is both supporters of and objectors against the eighteenth amendment must admit that its machinery needs readjusting...
Prince Henry of Prussia must have awakened, but he kept himself and his opinion of U. S. yokels concealed until his car was coupled to a through express. His mission (it was in 1902) was to foment good will; and perhaps, when he returned to Germany, he confided only to his "brother Bill" the tale of "Wake up, Hen!" But last week, at Kiel, Prince Henry recalled the story as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entrance into the Imperial Navy...