Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assured of cruisers, United Fruit, from its Boston headquarters, announced that no U. S. lives or property were so far endangered by the fighting in Honduras. While hecklers charged that the revolt was directly connected with the withdrawal order for Nicaragua, Secretary Stimson was advised by U. S. Minister Lay at Tegucigalpa that the uprising had no large political backing, would soon "fizzle...
Famine. Significantly China's Red provinces are not her famine provinces. Misery there is too enervating, too catastrophic to produce social revolt...
Universities have always been seething centers of revolt from the established system, however, and this situation is not to be taken too seriously. Even if teachers and instructors are all radicals and socialists, they are not always able to convince their listeners, while the textbooks, which are so tainted with the principles and theories of the Reds, are rarely studied with the understanding necessary to realize more than the minimum knowledge necessary for satisfactory grades. In all events, no matter what the political convictions of most undergraduate groups, there is certain to be enough dissent to prevent the possibility...
...Declaration of Revolt" Berlin's storm squad flayed "the scandalous double-dealing of Adolf Hitler who has been used to Habsburg methods [he is Austrian...
...prison. Three convicts tried to start another outburst in the mess hall. And when the convict band at Stateville, practicing unguarded, fought among themselves over the question of inciting similar disturbance, prison officials knew that the newer institution had also been infected with the virus of revolt. They announced: "Things are hot right now. Anything might hap- pen." It happened next...