Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Jewess, leader of the extreme radicals in the attempted Spartacus revolt was pounded to death by the rifle butts of soldiers when the revolution failed in January, 1919. Her body was thrown into the River Spree...
Only recently the offices of the National Minority Movement, (radical movement in industry) was raided in London because it was disseminating pamphlets inciting the army to revolt. Last week the British Communist Party published a letter to the Labor Party and the Trade Union Conference urging them "to win the soldiers and sailors from the capitalists," to make the issue as between the workers and the exploiters "so that the army and navy mutiny," for "there is no doubt that the capitalist classes intend to intimidate and, if necessary, crush the workers with the army and navy...
...Following the Boxer revolt in 1900, put down by foreign powers including the U. S., an indemnity of $335,900,000 was extracted from China. The share of the U. S. was about $24,500,000. In 1908 the U. S. remitted some $12,000,000 of this amount to be spent by China for educational purposes. The balance is now disposed in similar manner. *Tennessee was the only state carried by Harding in 1920 which Coolidge did not carry in 1924. Coolidge, however, carried Kentucky, which Harding lost. *Louis Kroh Liggett is an able, self-made...
Following the second revolt of the year in Portugal (TIME, July 27), Premier Antonio da Silva presented his resignation to President Gomes, whom he advised to dissolve Parliament...
Last week, the second revolution of the year broke out in Lisbon. No year-or very few-passes without at least one such ditsurbance. The revolt was unsuccessful. Following the modern movement in revolutions (see ECUADOR), few* shots were fired; little damage was done, there were few-casualties, but a lot of arrests and possibly much bad language...