Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Declaration of Liberty, coming on the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington is just another example of the ignorance some good people have of the remarkable change which has taken place in the technique of liberty-seeking revolt in the last century. The D.A.R. was shown, in these columns, to have closed its eyes to the revolution in American revolts...
First proclamation of Burgomaster Schmitz was to announce that May Day, traditional holiday of Socialist Vienna, will still be a holiday, but to celebrate the Socialist defeat in the bloody revolt of February...
...Banking & Currency Committee, whose headlined sessions he is usually too busy to attend, and jammed through an amendment creating a separate stock exchange commission to administer the whole bill- just what President Whitney has been demanding. A thumping victory for the bill's opponents. Senator Glass's revolt cleared the way for thoroughgoing revision...
...When news of the revolt was brought I was at my summer place playing polo on my private polo field. I immediately went to my father's side in Pizarro Palace in Lima. He told me he was heartsick and discouraged . . . and was already formulating the names of those in a junta who should govern the country. One of the disloyal men in his administration spoke up to him and demanded that he should include his name on the list. I. very peacefully, hit him in the face and took him to the window and threw him out into...
Every schoolboy knows something about Lawrence of Arabia; most of them know that he is now Aircraftman Shaw. In his own lifetime Lawrence's fame has grown until his world-wide shadow is more than man-sized. From Revolt in the Desert, his own abridgment of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom* many a reader knows the salient facts of the most monumental chapter of Lawrence's career. His good friend Robert Graves's Lawrence & the Arabian Adventure filled in some further gaps. Now Liddell Hart, also a friend of long standing, attempts to answer all possible pertinent...