Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Peterson, onetime Townsend publicity director charged that the Clementses' high living was entirely paid for by the pennies & nickels of deluded oldsters. He said Founders Townsend and Clements were netting $2,000 per week from the Townsend Weekly, 5? sheetlet which now reports 220,000 circulation. Swiftly revolt broke out in Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and California Townsend Clubs, with ugly charges of dictatorship and mishandling of funds...
...cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight years ago Henry de Jouvenel predicted that 1935 would find Europe on the brink of another...
...From it eight copies were printed, of which five were still in existence in 1927. A fourth text was then issued to subscribers (U. S. price, $20,000), so printed and assembled that no one except Lawrence knew how many copies had been produced. Since the abridgement, published as Revolt in the Desert, ran to only 130,000 words, the legend grew that the expurgated material contained frightful disclosures, savage criticisms of British generals, brutal accounts of barbaric warfare, clarification of Lawrence's misogyny and of his ostentatious distaste for the publicity he avoided with an appalling lack...
...Arab revolt that Lawrence directed, and for whose success he received credit, was in the making long before he arrived in Arabia. When Lawrence, in order to get to Arabia, engineered his release from work in the intelligence service in Cairo, the Arabian revolt had prematurely broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those...
...Never before has the Power of the Press been thus saluted by British statesmen. Numerous British newsorgans last week were calling Premier Mussolini a maniac and London's Sunday Referee published an article hopefully suggesting that Italians will rise under Crown Prince Umberto and Air Marshal Balbo in a "revolt against the Dictator." Neutrals observed that, if the British "reason" is valid, Adolf Hitler may, with even better reason, use the excuse of press attacks upon Nazi-land to send German bombing planes roaring in "maneuvers" over Manhattan, Paris or London...