Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Progressive Labor, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common room under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist Club. The title of his speech is "Labor Turns Left" and in it he will attempt to answer the self-imposed question: "With miners in revolt in every field, the American Federation of Labor losing strength steadily, auto workers striving to organize, and unions being smashed daily by the depression, where can labor turn...
Iowa, hot bed of revolt, is the most heavily farm-mortgaged State in the Union. The total debt on its land for 1930 was $1,098,000,000 or nearly one-third of its farm value. Every lowan carries an average farm mortgage of $445 compared with a per capita burden of the same sort of only $75 for the rest of the country...
...agrarian revolt is the last thing President-elect Roosevelt wants on his hands during his first year in the White House. He and his Democratic associates have been cudgeling their brains to devise ways & means of heading off such an uprising before it reaches the blood-&-bullets stage. As one remedy for revolution Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, leather-lunged Democratic Senate leader, last week produced a 25-page bill to relieve mortgage-ridden farmers. If the revolutionaries could be bought off with cash, the conservative lawyer from Little Rock was ready to invest $1,500,000,000 for civil...
...head of the British Mission in 1918 his wife stayed behind and his mistress lived with him openly until he left Russia for good, two years later. Frank about his domestic misadventures, Lockhart does not dwell on them, spends more time on his eyewitness account of Russia in revolt...
...MODERN THEME-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2). Expanded lecture by one of Spain's foremost thinkers, author of The Revolt of the Masses...