Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter declared that the Rightist revolt against the Madrid Government was "legitimate"; the February 1936 election which put a Leftist coalition in power was unjust "because of the arbitrary annulment of votes." Russia was responsible for the revolution: "Immediately after the triumph of the People's Front, the Russian Komintern . . . financed it with extraordinary amounts of money. . . . The work of destruction was realized to cries of 'Long Live Russia.' In the shadow of the international Communist flag . . . Russia has grafted herself onto the governmental army . . . she aimed . . . at implanting the Communist regime...
Starting as a passive revolt to keep farm products from the market, dogged farmers in the southern agricultural areas shut themselves in their straw-thatched izby, refused to buy or sell, to work any land but their own. Last week, gaunt, rag-clad peasants, enraged at individuals who profited by delivering foodstuffs, took to barring the roads, overturning market trucks, destroying farm produce. Reports seeping through the iron press censorship told of sporadic clashes with police, with 56 casualties the result. Before long the strike took an anti-Semitic turn. Roving peasant bands attacked Jewish markets, set upon Jewish peddlers...
...labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...
...That in the heat of battle he had lost his head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
...fight was over the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief bill for fiscal 1938. In the House vigorous attempts were made to attach earmarking amendments to provide pork for the constituencies of various Congressmen (TIME, June 7 et seg.), but in the Senate the revolt against the bill was of an entirely different character. The fight in the Senate was started when dapper Senator James F. Byrnes, long rated a close political friend of Franklin Roosevelt, proposed an amendment sponsored by the Appropriations Committee requiring that no Work Relief projects should be undertaken unless the local communities concerned...