Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballet dancer the modern expressionist dance is a heinous horror; to the expressionist dancer the ballet is merely pretty movement to titillate the fancies of tired businessmen. The modernists have long held entrenched positions in arty lofts and studios, have expressed sexless conceptions of revolt and starvation to the tootling of oboes and the thumping of drums. In Broadway theatres on Sunday nights these restless, grim-eyed chorines illustrate the serious things of life before coal-black backdrops, attract audiences of starry-eyed worshippers at a $2.50 top (standees...
...evidence I secured seemed to indicate that a revolt will occur against Vargas inside of one year, and probably much sooner. This revolt will be led by General Flores da Cunha* and will have the backing of some business interests...
...General José Flores da Cunha, one of the original backers of the Vargas 1930 revolt which gave him the Presidential foothold, deposed recently as Governor of the rich state of Rio Grande do Sul in a clash over Vargas-usurped powers, exiled himself in Uruguay...
...longstanding war in Illinois between the rival miners' unions makes Labor's current internecine strike look like a taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march on Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal...
...among other things, used converted cotton fields to graze cattle. Dairy farmers rose in strength against cotton farmers and the Boileau amendment was adopted 202-to-188. Then Minnesota's August Andresen moved to send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount had carried on the first count, the leaders were barely able to collect enough votes from the cloakrooms to beat it on a roll call, 206-to-197. A moment later the House, settling back...