Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Agriculture, no man seemed more logical or deserving than James W. Good, the midwestern Hoover-izer who stopped and more than stopped the "farm revolt." Always cheerful but never overconfident, Mr. Good said, on the day before election, that estimating votes in advance was like driving a wagonload of bullfrogs to a pond-you couldn't tell from the noise how many had jumped...
Such atrocities would more than justify U. S. intervention. They are ascribed by the McCoy report to a "gang led by Pedro Altamirano, trusted lieutenant of Sandino." The latter is of course General Augusto Calderon Sandino, who has raised the standard of revolt against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
...perhaps the first time in history a great army moved forward preceded by an army of spies and trained propagandists scarcely less great. Towns and garrisons which had grown restive under the exactions of the War Lords were induced to revolt spontaneously and went over to the Nationalists as Generalissimo Chiang's armies approached. Largely by such means and with very little fighting the Southern half of China was absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist...
...easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master issued precepts of education that were long and thoroughly successful. His Roman sternness lost the Academy one type of genius, of Edgar Allen Poe was dismissed after eight months of stormy revolt; but under Major Thayer, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee learned lessons that helped at least the latter to his military ascendancy...
Senator Borah's ursine figure and mighty voice have lately been seen and heard by great and demonstrative masses of the electorate. He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention. He it is who is reckoned as Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended...