Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate Jeremiah T. Mahoney as it had in Fusionist LaGuardia...
...prompt action wrecked plans for a revolt," declared General Nogues, who tells the puppet Sultan of Morocco what to do. "Our troops will stay in the Medina as long as necessary. The French Government unanimously supports what I have done and all France is behind...
Many years ago, a gentleman from Princeton took occasion to remind a Harvard audience that the American flag was a flag of revolt, that only perpetual revolt could bring consistent progress. Today Mr. Wilson is dead, but the Harvard department of Americana is trying to carry on this tradition of denying tradition...
...escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three-man board swiftly passed the case on to the Department of Justice, which held 14 members of the crew for "revolt and mutiny...
Although the watered-down Left policies of moderate Premier Camille Chau-temps have been strongly endorsed by French voters at their local polls (TIME. Oct. 25), the Government set out last week to nip anti-Left revolt which may be budding in North Africa. Many of this colony's landed proprietors, while French in citizenship, are of Spanish. Italian. South American or even German birth. Almost to a man they are more conservative than the Communist. Socialist and moderate Radical Socialist parties which in coalition support the Chautemps Cabinet. Notoriously German are many tough mercenaries of the famed French...