Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two or three decades neither the practices nor the policies of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange have changed materially. President Howard Butcher Jr., senior partner in a local brokerage firm, carries on the ancient traditions despite the half-hearted threats of revolt by younger members. Excitement is occasionally provided on the floor by Salt Dome Oil, a mysterious issue which moves as much as 12 points between sales. As characteristic of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange today as it was in the 1870's is a deal of fast trading in local traction securities, foundation of most of Philadelphia...
...Communists, once decimated by "our own carelessness," now organize in cells of three, are rarely caught. Suspected Communists are usually murdered in the parks by Nazis, infrequently tried and executed. The German Communists predict the next war will last less than a year, after which a civil revolt will smash the Army and the Nazi regime...
...United Front underground organization includes about 75,000 Communists, 75,000 Revolutionary Socialists and 80,000 trade unionists. Wrecked by the Feb. 12, 1934 revolt, the Social Democratic Schutz-bund still has a fearless nucleus and lots of guns. Against these is a Nazi organization of 55,000, chiefly among farmers and students...
Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...
Many a vengeful Boer looked on the outbreak of the World War as a good chance to win back independence from Britain. De Wet and de la Rey led the revolt, roused nearly 12,000 Boers to their flag. But Smuts stood pat. The revolt was put clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found...