Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative O'Connor's investigation of lobbying for and against the Public Utility Bill was the aftermath of a House revolt at Administration pressure on Representatives to compel them to accept the "death sentence" clause for holding companies. Senator Black's investigation of the same thing was sponsored by friends of the "death sentence" who sought so to discredit the utilities in the headlines that the House would have to reverse its position on the "death sentence...
...slow, chuffing train from Athens U. S. Minister Lincoln MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
...Bulgaria, a Turkish province, was struggling for its independence; on the Turkish island of Crete, Greeks had just ended an unsuccessful three-year revolt and a curly-haired moppet named Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos was just 8 years old. Dr. House learned Bulgarian, and was instrumental in arranging exchanges of Bulgarian and Turkish prisoners...
...sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from a nice, quiet revolution . . . not a Communistic revolt . . . a revision of the region's implanted ideas, a clarification of issues, a realistic and direct recognition of existing social problems, a redirection of the South's courage and audacity, and a determination that the Southern conscience shall be accorded the reverence due a sacred thing...
...blew up 25 Turkish trains, 57 bridges and culverts. When the Arabs took their goal, Damascus, Lawrence quietly disappeared. Of all this he wrote in his monumental Seven Pillars of Wisdom (top price, $5,000; about no copies printed) which in two nights he abridged into the best-selling Revolt in the Desert. After the peace treaties Lawrence declared himself disgusted that the Arabs had not got all he promised them. He ostentatiously sought obscurity, enlisted in the Air Force as a private, changed his name to Shaw...