Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached the end of his rope and he realized that the people were about to rise in revolt, he resigned. A very shrewd man!" Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Pennsylvania Governor's lady who thought of General Johnson as a Wall Street strikebreaker, crowed: "I told...
Madrid, Oct. 6, (Saturday)--The Spanish government, sitting in war council and besieged by reports of rebellion from every section of the Republic prepared today to smash the extremist revolt by throwing every loyal regiment at its command into the field...
...Germany, Defendant van der Lubbe was beheaded, the others acquitted. In Judgment Day, all but one of the judges are about to be bullied into a blanket verdict of guilty when the Dictator (House Jameson) appears, encounters a sudden revolt, is shot dead. Even more boisterous and declamatory than Pulitzer Prize-winner Rice's We, the People, this sharply written melodrama suffers from one defect : real news events, when literally re-created in the theatre, tend to sound like burlesques...
...because he knows too much." This attempt Vienna police foiled in time's nick. Last week Director Apold, who may yet hang with Dr. Rintelen, made not the smallest protest as the Government confiscated $70,000 worth of his goods, in effect stamped Styria's revolt "Paid...
...head of the regular army and his private Heimwehr, ruled by decree. But in the last year the Austrians have twice turned to revolution and murder in an effort to express opinions which they were not permitted to express by ballot. Their peaceful opposition outlawed, their active revolt was suppressed by machine guns and the gallows...