Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent a message exhorting its members to loosen up on commercial credit to help along the NRA drive. ¶ President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system two decades ago wrote to protest NRA's price-fixing for oil which would tend to put out of business his clients, small independent gasoline station owners in 26 states...
...Camp Columbia barracks of the very officers who had overthrown Machado. Firmly and none too politely the sergeants told their superiors they were through. Word traveled fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt of the sergeants." They held the forts, ships, men, artillery. If it came to a showdown, they held the balance of power. Their leader was straightway made Chief of Staff and Revolutionary Leader of the Armed Forces. He was Top Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, who as a sharp-eyed court stenographer...
Professed aim of last week's revolt was a new provisional government, which would call a constituent assembly to meet before the general election which Provisional President de Cespedes had promised to hold next February. Until February the old-fashioned Cuban Constitution of 1901 was to be reinstated. Immediate cause of the enlisted men's dissatisfaction was President de Cespedes' proposal to reduce their numbers and pay. Fundamental to everything, however, is the national, sugar-coated impoverishment with which President de Cespedes had hoped to tussle this week...
...master (his mathematical treatises include an exposition of Einstein theory), but with many a nostalgic glance over his shoulder at Maxwell and classical mathematics. Now a gentle, grey-haired, square-jawed Jew with a shuffling walk and a husky voice, dislodged from Göttingen by the Nazi revolt, he lives quietly in Zurich, Switzerland with his wife and children, has turned down a professorship offered in Belgrade...
...names of the vast majority of voters in this country. They are ruling the country, and really ruling it, through their elected representative, the President. But even in their special fields, the big bankers and industrialists of today are not the leaders they were in 1930. With the revolt of the voters has come : revolt of the stock- holders. The day of secret bonuses and unreasonable salaries has gone forever. ... What has happened has most certainly been a good thing for the country. In fact, it has been a damn good thing...