Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arts. Although he wins the fiancee of Schultz, his money-grabbing, plagiarizing fellow musician, he ends in poverty, while Schultz cavorts in the salons of Europe. But there is no doubt in the minds of the audience that Egor will find appreciation for his realistic compositions in the revolt of the workingmen. Fortunately there is only one shot of troops ruthlessly suppressing revolution and that is well-done through suggestion...
Prosecution attorneys will claim that Hitler deliberately permitted the revolt to mature, in order to serve his own motives...
...Chief revolter was Francisco Largo Caballero, who claims to be a purer Marxist than Stalin. As allies Largo Caballero had beguiled the pinkish Socialists of onetime Premier Manuel Azaña and the sectional patriots of perennially seceding Catalonia. Señor Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch...
...came to death was when a nervous U. S. sentry's bullet passed between his left arm and his body, singeing his uniform. After his Mexican service, Lee was superintendent of West Point for three years. Lee commanded the troops that ended John Brown's ill-timed revolt at Harpers Ferry. Just before the Civil War broke out. Lee was vegetating in an army post in Texas. Recalled to Washington and offered the command of the Union Army, he sorrowfully tendered his resignation. No Southern hothead, he regarded the Civil War as a tragedy, and one that might...
...every part of Spain, with rifles, revolvers, machine-guns, and occasionally light cannon, the revolutionists fought their way. But, to their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...