Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of all, they would like to encourage Harry Truman to retire, by showing him that the South is ready to stage a first-class revolt. Their greatest complaint against Truman: his race policies. They abhor the proposal for a federal fair employment practices law, which would strike at segregation. The Southerners rationalize their stand by claiming that this problem should be handled by the states...
Ever since the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948, politicians and pundits have been speculating about the course Southern Democrats would follow in 1952. Truman failed to heal the rift between Northern and Southern Democrats. On the other hand, most of the Dixiecrat leaders lost ground within the Democratic Party. The South's problem this time was how to oppose Truman without leaving the party. Last week the Southern leaders disclosed the first step in their program...
Unfortunately M.G.M. added one final touch--the Hackneyed gimmick of staging a town revolt complete with barricades, having the two rivals fight it out, and finally reforming the "bad-man" in time for a touching finale...
Armed with sheaves of evidence and backed by 52 witnesses, the prosecutor began unfolding an imposing story of Communist espionage and intrigue. It began more than 2½ years ago, after the U.S.-bolstered Greek army had crushed the Communist guerrilla revolt. Greek intelligence officers began picking up coded radio conversations between a station near Bucharest, in Communist Rumania, and clandestine stations near Athens. For more than a year they tried without success to track down the source, meanwhile collecting scores of messages in a code they could not decipher...
...rumored revolt of French troops...