Word: foment
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...farm revolt in the West is, of course, the underlying cause of uneasiness. There is a bitterness here against the agitators who would take advantage of the troublesome situation to foment strife. But it is apparent that the patience of farm groups is at the breaking point and that the administration is not going to have a chance to continue its experimental economics indefinitely...
...week among bus drivers, spread to waterfront workers, slaughterhouse and market men, newspaper staffs, telegraphers, railway employes and the staffs of Havana's best hotels. Suspicion was rife that the Government, fearing Mediator Welles was about to exact the resignation of President Machado. had sent agents provocateurs to foment the original strikes, thinking that a little trouble would give Dictator Machado an excuse to order out the Army and fight to keep his power. Day after day, as strikes spread far beyond the Government's possible wish, Havana police grew more & more frantic. When strikers forced shopkeepers...
...Last week wise Bishop Manuel Irurita y Almandoz of Barcelona ordered all his priests to refrain, without express permission, from attending all political meetings, from "speaking publicly of affairs that foment partisanship...
Early last week it was evident that the foment had not quieted in the old prison. Three convicts tried to start another outburst in the mess hall. And when the convict band at Stateville, practicing unguarded, fought among themselves over the question of inciting similar disturbance, prison officials knew that the newer institution had also been infected with the virus of revolt. They announced: "Things are hot right now. Anything might hap- pen." It happened next...
...Rintelen did great damage to the German cause?there is no doubt about it! He went to America on a purely economic mission, but preferred to foment strikes?and spent a great deal of money doing so. The rest of the money von Rintelen took with him was taken from him by David Lamar, known as 'the Wolf of Wall Street,* who emptied his pockets in short order. Bombs were manufactured and placed on allied ships, but only one ever exploded as far as is known...