Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-78) was the first member of the family to revolt completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'' Catherine refuted Jonathan Edwards on free will, denied the doctrine of original sin, and set about improving the educational opportunities of U. S. females. She founded five schools, was one of the first progressive educators, wrote a best-selling treatise on housekeeping...
...deference for the President's desires was a vote of 190 to 189 with which the House finally rejected the Senate's plan to spend $354,000.000 in favor of its own plan to spend only $243,000,000 more than the President wanted. Cause of this revolt was primarily the Congressional desire to placate the American Legion and Government employes before election next autumn-a desire which will probably grow stronger as the session draws to a close. To the President the pension and pay restoration was a bigger defeat than either the bonus bill...
...come out baldly for the industrialists, forbid the right of strike, set wages, and run the whole private profit economic structure with the iron hand, not of court orders and injunctions, but of executive dictatorship. Or he can encourage and strengthen labor to the point where it will revolt, not only against the profit system, but against his own middle of the road administration, and another executive dictatorship, in the interests of the laboring classes, will take control. The one thing which he cannot do, and it is the thing which he has been trying to do, is to merge...
...been expected, the first attempt of the Administration to fulfill its pledge to balance the 1936 budget is being welcomed with revolt in both houses of the legislature. This time, yes; the Democratic caucus will support the President and prevent a two-thirds majority over his veto of the amended Independent Offices 'Appropriation Bill...
What this is going to mean for the conservative government is pretty well foreshadowed by the general strike which has now paralyzed the island and threatens momentarily to develop into an actual revolt; and there is no doubt that the revolution will come. Once it starts Mendieta is certainly doomed, for the forces of conservatism are hopelessly outnumbered. The fall of Mendieta is going to put the Roosevelt Administration right back in the impossible position which it found so uncomfortable in the last days of Grau San Martin. The only inference is that any policy which is consistently productive...