Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rough, crude, unbridled force, Huey Long is more than a windy showman of the Tom Heflin breed who bows to party control. He is persistent. He is quick-witted. He is unscrupulous. For a year he has been in open revolt against the Robinson-Glass-Harrison leadership of his party. He envisages himself as the captain of the next Senate, with a radical economic program to put through. He is for President Roosevelt only so long as President Roosevelt is for him. His tactics last week drove a big wedge deep into his party and left President Roosevelt the tough...
Within 12 hours after its announcement President-elect Roosevelt found himself the centre of a party revolt. His latest attempt at remote control had stirred small taxpayers everywhere to a frenzy of anxiety. The country, which had not yet paid its income tax under the new 1932 rates more than doubling those of 1928, was confronted with even more drastic increases. Was this, it asked, part of the "New Deal"? Was the "forgotten man'' once more forgotten...
...produced from his large person, like a magician, 40 U. S.-made watches which he said he had bought in Europe for less than U. S. jobbers would sell him the same article here. This speech made a sensation. Eleven million reprints of it were circulated. A tariff revolt was started by the gentleman from Illinois which cost the Republicans the House in 1910, the Presidency in 1912. Tariffs are still Representative Rainey's special legislative study. He works on them the way other men work on their golf stroke. When President Hoover raised the tariff as the last...
...each). MEN AGAINST DEATH - PAUL DE KRUIF - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND - Anonymous - Liveright ($3). A NEW DEAL - Stuart Chase - Macmil lan ($2). OUR TIMES : Vol. IV, The War Begins, (&-" - (,93-75;-1909-1914 - Mark Sullivan - Scribner (3.75) RETLTRN TO YESTERDAY-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($4). THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2.75). THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE : A NARRATIVE OF D. H. LAWRENCE-Catherine Carswell -Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). THE SECOND COMMON READER-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace ($3). WINGS OVER POLAND-Kenneth Malcolm Murray-Appleton...
...compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers. The belligerent beer drinkers might revolt; they might even try manufacturing their own beer...