Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part employed by American concerns, have been on strike and the police have taken the same steps to preserve order that the police of any other country would have taken. There has been no serious street fighting, no long casualty list, no mutiny in the fleet and no Communist revolt...
...arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout of the peasant revolt outside the smoke filled hotel room where the nocturnal setters-up of presidents are bartering votes, it is possible that a disgusted populace may at last move to gain the right of choice of president that has been kept from it so long...
...seen, but last week's developments proved Mrs. Bailie right in one respect. The "revolution" of the Daughters was not over. In New Haven, Conn., awakening to what Mrs. Bailie meant and what had happened to her, a dozen more Daughters-distinguished ones, too-not only rose in revolt, but marched right out of the D. A. R., resigned...
Rival Venezuelans, having submitted to Gomez for 20 years, now seem to want a change. Their decision to submit or to revolt is important to U. S. business because Venezuela has become in recent years the second largest oil producing country in the world-the U. S. being first...
...impossible that there should be peace on a crowded island with a population divided three times against itself. The blacks were the first to revolt. A man named Boukmann gathered his people in a forest, told them that the King of France had proclaimed three holidays every week for slaves, that an army was coming from France to make their masters obey. There was thunder in the sky above the woods, ". . . and, as if born of the darkness and storm, a giant Negress appeared in the midst of the crowded open space. A long knife gleamed wet in her upraised...