Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named McClure and is made of tougher fibre than most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...pick its own case after Dec. 1, by which date all holding companies must register with SEC. Then SEC may be confronted with mass rebellion on the part of big holding companies, can prosecute for noncompliance with the law, which to date has not been violated. Sensing the threatened revolt, SEChairman Landis called upon powermen to weigh their plans in the light of the penalties involved, should the Supreme Court eventually sustain the Act. Pointing out that they could reserve full right to challenge the Act while. filing the relatively simple registration, he cried over the powermen's heads...
...north, meanwhile, Japanese had been busy early last week tying their string to the demilitarized area near Peiping in which Japanese "ronin" provocateurs recently stirred up Chinese farmers to revolt and seize two towns (TIME, Nov. 4). Deriving his authority from Nanking, the Chinese satrap on the spot, General Shang Chen, sat down and made a deal last week with the Japanese Army representative in North China, General Hayao Tada. "The Deal," according to General Shang: "General Tada promised me to control the activities of the Japanese ronin now and in the future. He agreed that I shall send...
...famed Forty Seven Ronin who perished centuries ago but live in Japanese brains today as examples of furtive, desperate, suicidal valor. Last week the Chinese military commander of Hopei Province, General Shang Chen, charged that "modern Japanese ronin" are sneaking about in his province stirring up Chinese farmers to revolt...
...waterfalls, which is presumably as dangerous in another century as it was up to this week. When the daughter of John Cabal, dictator, volunteers to fly through space with her sweetheart in the interests of science and adventure, all dissatisfied elements in the world rally in a great antiscientific revolt, are confounded when Catherine and her lover running ahead of the mob, go whistling off toward the stars...