Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolution which always blaze up when His Majesty leaves the country. The latest previous outburst was during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...
...better can sound the tocsin that will start a revolt to raise the tone of American politics...
...candidates who were the beneficiaries of this revolt of the voters against government which had ceased to be civilized and politics which was nothing more than rapine, grand larceny, degeneracy, sadism, privileged murder and systemized extortion, must be touched in the head if they think that the April election was merely a fleeting episode in the experience cf credulous or apathetic voters and that every one is willing to forget it and welcome all the blacklegs back at the table...
Certainly this view is strengthened by the peculiar attitude of Socialist-Novelist Mussolini toward the mob which he raises against Claudia the courtesan. The mob, he declares, "represented the poorest classes, excitable, impulsive, sentimental. They are the classes which patiently endure economic slavery without protest and then burst into revolt over some moral issue...
...believed to write. Pounding for order in parliamentary fashion, Chairman Bukharin announced the following agenda of subjects for discussion: 1) Reiteration of the program of world revolution. 2) Encouragement of Communism in nationalist China and India. 3) Defensive measures against the wars being planned by Capitalism. 4) Encouragement of revolt movements in all colonies held by imperialistic powers. 5) Inspection of the condition of the All-Union Communist party of the Soviet Union...