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Word: revo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engels was much more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marx's Engels | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...office and make his law a dead-letter. Whereupon some 15,000 poor Veracruz farmers armed themselves and went to war against the Government. Boss Calles began to suspect that Senor Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear him speak, though they knew the candidate from Veracruz had no chance of being elected. But Tejeda's hard bitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Interference | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken the field, sweep into Havana in triumph. There was some traitor in the club. The Coral was scarcely free of the pier before Cuban gunboats started in pursuit. Seventeen men, including onetime President Menocal's two brothers Fausto and Guatimon slipped ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: War for Machado | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...them are illiterate; but they can all listen. Revolutionary doctrines spread to the farthest villages of Spain thanks to the telephone and radio systems ("best in Europe") which I. T. & T. in stalled and operates through its subsidiary, Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana. Yet last week thousands of Spanish revo lutionaries rose against their foster-father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Syndicato v. Telefonica | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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