Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rehearsals for this year's Pi Eta show are beginning this week. Scheduled for performance on Friday and Saturday evenings, March 25 and 26, it is entitled "Revolt in Reverse" and was written by Richard Dorr...
...University are still puzzled and confused by President Conant's report, few can possibly believe that by "limitation" Mr. Conant meant a drastic curtailment of enrollment in all colleges. Naturally, to the man in the street "diminution of the total number of students" would signify, if anything, an aristocratic revolt against the old American tradition of "opportunity for all, closed doors to none...
...bonds, a faith which has inched the bonds from a record low 19¾ in 1933 to 74⅞ early this year, was climaxed politically in Havana last week. The bottom of 19! was hit soon after Dictator Gerardo Machado was forced to flee the island following the 1933 revolt. Eight years before he had embarked on an ambitious construction program which called for a 7O0-mile highway skewing the island; and streets, schools, public buildings for Havana. It was largely financed by $60,000,000 borrowed from New York's Chase National Bank...
...last week when shots cracked out from sun-caked Matamoros, just across the broad Rio Grande from Brownsville, jumpy small-town Texan editors scare-headlined it as the expected Fascist revolt. When competent U. S. correspondents investigated they found no major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros...
...outbreaks occurred. Thousands of peons found that bank credit for Mexico's late cotton-planting season was nonexistent. Suddenly, the Government suspended irrigation public-work projects for lack of cash. Discontent was widespread and the Gold Shirts decided on their abortive attempt to stir the unrest into mass revolt. At week's end the President ordered Government jobs provided for them on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway construction...