Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insurance companies hold about 20% of all farm mortgages, government-supervised land banks about 12%. Most of these mortgages were negotiated when farm produce brought prices almost double today's. Compelled to pay interest and principal on old debts out of reduced earnings, many a farmer is close to revolt against foreclosure. Joint-Stock Land Banks are taking $50 per acre for foreclosed farms which the owner mortgaged for $125 per acre. Even at $50 per acre the banks are able to retire their own bonds which have likewise depreciated about two-thirds in value. This process proves profitable...
Disinterested observers thought the Wisconsin vote had less to do with issues, conservative or radical, than with a widespread popular revolt against all present officeholders. As in Maine, it seemed to be a case of turning out the "ins.''* Voters, resentful of hard times and high taxes, struck against public officials rather than for their opponents. Last week it was Governor La Follette and Senator Elaine who suffered; in November President Hoover, most distinguished "in," may be a victim of the same psychology...
...tale where The Good Earth dropped it, at Wang Lung's death. His three sons, Wang the Landlord, Wang the Merchant, Wang the Soldier, divide the property. Wang the Soldier, who likes to be called Wang the Tiger, takes his in cash. He has a scheme to revolt against his aging general, lead the best of his troops to another province and set up as a war lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready & waiting. The Hawk...
What distinguishes our age from preceding ones is that "the masses are in revolt," determined to take the world into their own hands. The commonplace has become tyrannical. In former times "the masses asserted no right to intervene in [government] ; they realized that if they wished to intervene they would necessarily have to acquire those special qualities and cease being mere mass." A fierce believer in aristocracy of intellect and character, not of heredity, Ortega, y Gasset calls such organized mass-government as Fascism and Bolshevism "two false dawns . . . mere primitivism." Europe's answer, he thinks, is to build itself...
...lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but Gómez joined forces with Macéo and spread revolt over the whole island. Meantime the Junta in the U. S. had the job of keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested filibusters (never lost a case). Occasionally he made a voyage himself...