Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days ago a revolt broke out at Dartmoor in which several men were killed and more than a few seriously injured. The immediate cause given for the uprising was the fact that the inmates had found their porridge unpalatable when served without sugar. Though it is to be admitted that prison porridge devoid of the usual appurtenances is probably not an appealing dish when served up, this, as a primary cause, does not sound convincing. Epicurean affrontry must only have been the under that set off a conflagration which was long in building...
...world is to escape prison riots, convict massacres, and open revolt it must revise its methods of confinement. Prisons must be equipped with the essentials of living, and the environment must be made more congenial. The era when severe physical ordeals were considered the only method by which a convict could "be made a man again" are past. Modern pyschology has found how greatly environment affects character, but these findings accomplish little if not put to some tangible use. America has been troubled by many uprisings of this sort and while they continue the penal system of the nation appears...
...with Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel, onetime President of the All-India National Congress, who is now jailed with St. Gandhi, and a third woman, who said she belonged to a wealthy Parsi family. All three were charged with inciting India's women to non-violent revolt. Mrs. Gandhi, who had pleaded to be taken with her husband at his arrest, submitted quietly, smiled serenely at the officers. At Cawnpore, scene of the Indian Mutiny Massacre of 1857, cavalry were called out. At Karachi police charged a crowd after a public meeting, injured 28. At Allahabad...
...their stand, defied police, troops and airplanes to come and get them. As a final gesture the besiegers set fire to the wood. When the green trees would not burn, they shrugged their shoulders and went back to La Paz. Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island. Dictator Uriburu ordered...
...Yoke. A revolt by the younger generation of Germany against Reparations was predicted by Banker Mitchell. Senators sat at taut attention when he said: "These young people see that not only they but their progeny and their progeny's progeny must go on paying a debt for which they were not responsible. They feel they are under a heavy yoke and they are growing rebellious. It is something that is readily understandable. . . . I'm not preaching any doctrine of cancellation but I'm trying to develop some of the psychology of the people that may have...