Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Douglas naturally was delighted, and thenceforth Shields, Pierce and Hanes led the revolt from the inside while Douglas stormed the walls...
Elongated, mountainous Crete, fourth largest island in the Mediterranean,* has two distinctions: it is potted with prehistoric remains, has long been the spawning ground for revolts. From Crete, Eleutherios Venizelos, a native of the island, launched a political career in the course of which he became Premier of Greece no less than seven times. From Crete, in March 1935, he supported one of the fiercest revolts in modern Greek history, seized several warships, only to have his revolt squelched. Old Venizelos fled to Paris, where he died year later...
Canea. Dictator Metaxas announced that the revolt was over, the rebels surrendering or fleeing to the hills. It was; they were. Having achieved this triumph, the Prussian-educated dictator seized the opportunity to announce that he had been made "Premier for life...
...final move came with lightning suddenness last week. Greek Premier John Metaxas, having just crushed a revolt (see col. 1), sped to Salonika for a secret rendezvous with Bulgarian Premier George Kiosseivanov. General Metaxas, as this year's president of the Balkan Entente, signed on behalf of all its members a treaty canceling the arms limitations imposed upon Bulgaria at Neuilly. In signing the new pact, the premiers also made a mutual non-aggression agreement among the five States concerned. It was considered certain that this foreshadowed the early entrance of Bulgaria into the Balkan Entente...
...last few years, while one third of the population has lacked adequate medical attention, thousands of doctors have twiddled impecunious thumbs in empty offices. The American Medical Association has talked much, done little. Last year revolt rocked the genteel profession when 430 doctors, with big names and big practices, demanded that the A. M. A. pay more attention to the social problems of medicine, urged that the Government step in to help doctors as well as patients...