Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until Ion Bratianu's death (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). His brother, Vintila, every inch a Bratianu in height, broad frame and commanding mien, had not the necessary political dexterity to rule. Though Vintila became Prime Minister, the great Dynasty of Bratianu had already ended, and a peaceful peasant revolt toppled him from power (TIME, Nov. 12, 1928). Retainers found the handsome but embittered man lying on a bench in the park of his estate. A stroke had completely paralyzed his left side. He died at 9:30 p. m. In life he had one ruling passion: exclusion of foreign...
Mark's In-the-Bouwerie in similar fashion, concluded that the vault-batterers had intended to hold a Vanderbilt body for ransom. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (alias Aircraftsman Shaw), soldier of fortune and author (The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Revolt in the Desert), was dis covered to be translating Homer's Odyssey into English verse. Augusta, Ga. is booming its winter-resort possibilities. A committee was formed to co-ordinate all sports (golf, polo, tennis, horse shows, race meets, baseball). The chairman: Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, oldtime American League baseballer (Detroit...
...disturb the most infamous tariff act ever enacted by a legislative body. ... I confess to some astonishment that anybody should feel impelled to apologize for an apparent Democratic victory. . . ." Many another voice, particularly from the South, echoed Senator Glass. By the week's end, what looked like a real revolt against the seven leaders (Messrs. Smith. Davis, Cox, Robinson, Garner, Raskob, Shouse) was under...
Several of the accused, as in the Schachkta case, appeared to have confessed with extreme volubility, will rehearse these confessions at the trial with a view to incriminating as their foreign accomplices: i) Raymond Poincare, Wartime President of France; 2) Colonel Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence; 3) Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France; 4) Winston Churchill, former Chancellor of the British Exchequer; 5) Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Royal Dutch oilman...
Students began the revolt by proposing seven rules to the faculty, the first of which demanded that the student senate be empowered to pass on all social rules before they become effective. When the faculty declined to consider the document, the undergraduates struck, tried to prohibit others from attending classes until President Alfred Atkinson got back from a trip to Washington...