Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate the five sponsors for this political gathering?Republicans Norris, La Follette, Cutting; Democrats Wheeler and Costigan?rate themselves party men who revolt on occasion against party rule. As such they are Insurgents. Outside the Senate they drop party labels to unite on certain economic principles. As such they are Progressives. Republicans and Democrats were welcomed impartially to last week's powwow at the Carlton...
Many years of Mme. de Stael's life were spent in various European countries where her sparkling salons were centers of revolt against the oppression of French formalism in the arts. She was not too romantic, however, to forget her financial interests, and a large part of her correspondence with Americans deals with her investments in land in northern New York. She also looked upon America as the living example of her theories on the equality of man and life more or less in the natural state. Her correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris shows that she was many...
...Lima fiery little Provisional President Luis Sanchez Cerro thought the troops were on their way to crush the revolt at Arequipa (TIME, March 2), proud "Queen City of the South...
Solution: Cried Sr. Machado, "I fought Spain, not because of hate but because of love of independence. I was ready to shed blood, body and life if necessary for its maintenance. I am not a rebel, because I am a patriot. Patriots cannot revolt against the sacred institutions of the fatherland...
Harder to cope with was the No. 2 revolution. It started at Arequipa in southern Peru, where the President got his own revolutionary start. While loyal troops moved against the rebels, airplanes rained down on Arequipa copies of Lima newspapers announcing that Arequipa was "alone in her revolt," would soon again be in the grasp of Seven-fingered Col. Cerro...