Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, father of famed General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, heeded the demand of Admiral Eberle and took his troubles to President Coolidge. The first conference at the White House bore no immediate fruit. Representative Butler, organized his committee for action, for revolt if necessary...
...Conservative by-election candidate in which the Government's attitude toward Communism in industry was stated with unusual vigor: "Tha plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention of destroying trade unionism or weakening...
...tremendous revolt against the soulless materialism of present-day civilization is the keynote of Germany's present Youth Movement" said Dr. Fritz Kellarmann in an interview with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. Dr. Kellarmann. Studiennat of the Gymnasium of Kassel, is at present an Instructor of German at the University...
...aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many times defied the nation, is now content with a less vigorous aristocracy. But the real change in South Carolina has come back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites" 30 years ago. They seized both the political and industrial reins of the state. These "new" South Carolinians are described as trying to be both boosters and oldtime Southern gentlemen. The result shows itself in blatherskite politicians like its Senator Cole Blease.* This...
...Representatives on March 19, 1910. On that day he fought for the power which echoed from his gavel. For seven years he had told the House what to do, by means of a few terse epigrams and a set of rock-ribbed rules.* Now the House was in revolt against its Tsar. The epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made an assault upon the rules. They voted to have the House choose the members of the Committee on Rules and ousted the Speaker from...