Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema industry by the ears with Little Women, her employers have been trying doggedly to discover just what elusive factor, added to the stock formula of Lavender & Old Lace, made that picture so sensationally successful. A Woman Rebels represents an effort to discover if the element was the revolt of a young girl against convention. That the experiment is conducted with painstaking care only makes it the more apparent that the hypothesis is faulty...
...willingness "to give the bearer . . . one of the best consulates now vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish armies had been sent to that island, a popular move for U. S. recognition of the rebels blocked by Fish, the U. S. policy carefully worked out, Grant abruptly asked his Secretary of State: "I hear that Spain is sending troops out to Cuba, is that a fact...
...reached than anything known in the past. Yet, because of the economic conditions prevailing in the world today, it is impossible for its people to enjoy that higher standard. If we delay too long in making these benefits available to the masses of the people, they will revolt!" As rapidly as possible the League last week produced and approved a resolution urging all States represented in Geneva to follow the Latin lead toward Economic Disarmament. In addition to a return to Free Trade in the not too distant future, Geneva statesmen spoke hopefully of a return to the Gold Standard...
...Spain in Revolt" is valuable for the facts it presents rather than the interpretation of those facts. The authors are unrelenting supporters of the Peoples Front and consistent antagonists of the Fascist elements from beginning to end. Their reasoning is often superficial, and their evidence in support of the liberal government occasionally makes excellent justification for the Fancist But we must not be too critical of an interpretation made with scarealy any perspective. Gannon and Hepard have done enough to merit great appreciation in their wealth of facits, the majority of which are well substantiated with references...
These are but a few of the economic and social factors touched on by the authors. They are invaluable in judging the revolution from a sensible standpoint. We highly advocate the reading of Gannes and Repard's "Spain in Revolt...