Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason I gladly join the gentleman from Connecticut in revolt against the President of the United States...
...from Connecticut?" As everyone knows, there are no Democratic Congressmen from Connecticut. The gentleman referred to was Representative John Quillin Tilson, duly elected leader of Republican forces on the floor of the House. Next to him sat Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who had just added his emphatic voice to the revolt against President Coolidge. Not since 1917, when Champ Clark fought the draft, had a Speaker of the House taken part in debate from the floor...
...lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest citizens who would otherwise destroy them...
...every periodical of this kind must have its "poetry". "Rivers of Babylon" is perhaps the best. Most of it shows little real spirit. "Revolt" has two excellent lines. And that is that...
...another [term], he will have been President two years longer than any other man in our history. The limitation that Washington and Jefferson regarded as wise and to which Grant and Roosevelt yielded as final is to be broken for Coolidge? It does not seem sane. Second, the agrarian revolt in the great Republican States in the West is real. . . . "A third argument is that there is in the field a Presidential candidate inherently stronger than Mr. Coolidge-Frank 0. Lowden. It may be that his age-66-or his health, or some other reason will keep Mr. Lowden from...