Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed like any other spring, but in Washington there was angry and fearful talk about a revolt on the farm. Grasping for an issue to use in the November elections, Democratic leaders were playing the farm issue at campaign pitch, and some farm state congressional Republicans were almost as keyed up. The Democrats kept studying the charts of the 1948 elections, in which Harry Truman carried four Republican farm states (Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa) plus border Missouri. They figured that if-just if-they could catch all five, hold the South plus all that Stevenson won in 1952, they...
Ezra Benson needed to be calm and prayerful, for he is presiding over the agricultural economy of the U.S. at a time of revolution, not revolt. Caught up in the forces of change, most U.S. farmers are worried, many are angry, a few are giving up. The revolution that besets them started slowly more than a generation ago, when U.S. farming began to change from a family way of life to a specialized indu try. Through the years new machines- tractors, trucks, combines, multiple plows, multi-row cultivators, a whole catalogue of farm equipment-made it possible...
Despite his obvious hardships, Republican Anderson is not in a mood of revolt. Of Secretary Benson, he says with understanding, "I'd hate to have his job." Of President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill: "With everybody thinking he had to sign it because of politics, he proved to me that he done what he thought was the right thing...
Politically, the prospects for 1956 are that there will be some shift of farm votes from the Republican to the Democratic side, but no revolt. Some politicians think that the switch may be large enough to change some congressional seats, but barring plummeting prices or Act of God, there is no reason to believe that Dwight Eisenhower will not carry the farm belt in November...
Conservatism and orderliness led Ibáñez, in 1925, to take part in an army revolt against Chile's first reform-minded liberal President, Arturo Alessandri. Making himself dictator, he borrowed $300 million abroad, touched off a period of prosperity, then saw his regime collapse in 1931 with the Depression. The experience soured Chile on dictatorship, but did not discourage Ibáñez. He tried three more revolutions, including a 1939 Putsch copied after that of the Nazis. All failed, and Ibáñez finally decided, in 1952, to try the ballot box. His lonely, military...