Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GRATEFUL APPRECIATION FOR YOUR "STUDY-PROVOKING" SKETCH "CONGRESSIONAL REVOLT OF '39" [TIME, July 31]. FROM YOUR OUTLINE AND FROM MANY A STUDENT PALETTE WILL SPRING COLORFUL WORD PICTURES OF A NEW PARTY-"THE REPUBLOCRATS...
...conference was small-time stuff for such a big-time Nazi. While in London he sought out Robert Spear Hudson, British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would "fight and beat" Germany...
Last week celebrations all over Spain reminded Spaniards that three years had passed since General Franco flew from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Civil War. The anniversary of the revolt was a bright, cool day that ended a heat wave. At the lunch hour, factory workers listened to the reading of decrees announcing a "fiesta for the exaltation of labor" and promising wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms...
...Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco's revolt, grabbed posts in his Government. But Spain had changed more than her leaders. In three years she had lsot...
...Bloomington in 1909 he soon became a practicing politician as well as a conspicuous figure. He wore a loose-necked red sweater, chewed tobacco, preached socialism from campus soapboxes. By the time he became sophomore he was a leader of the campus "barbs," roared against the fraternities, preached revolt against the university faculty. One of the fraternity leaders (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore out. As a senior he even broke down and joined...