Word: fomenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign to unionize the employes of the steel industry has been announced. . . . Persons and organizations not connected with the industry have taken charge of the campaign. There are many disturbing indications that the promoters of the campaign will employ coercion and intimidation of the employes in the industry, and foment strikes...
Somewhat over one million French proletarians continued on strike as last week opened, despite frantic efforts by Socialist Blum to give them all they said they wanted and get them back to work. Even the French Communist Party, which at first had encouraged and sought to foment strikes, grew appalled by the extent to which they had got beyond what anyone could imagine was Communist Party control. In a speech which the Socialist Premier himself might have made, apple-cheeked Maurice Thorez, head man of French Communism, sought to stem the spontaneous, nationwide strikes, declared: "Strikers must know...
...American activities of certain individual in their abortive attempts to foment disorder after the meeting Monday were ludicrous except in their malicious misrepresentation of the spirit of the gathering to the press...
Immediately Right Wing parties charged the Socialists and Communists with being eager to foment a war, suggested that it might be wise to pay a little more attention to Germany's case, and to deal directly with the Nazi Government...
...turn go into the market for more cotton. . . . "Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family can live is opposed chiefly by the few who profited heavily from the Depression. It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to foment city people against the farmer and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks to discredit the vote in favor of a continued corn-hog program by comparing your desire for a fair price for the farmer to the appetite of hogs for corn. . . . "The nation...