Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take his choice. 1) To sign it would seem to repudiate every statement he has made on farm relief, would vex his own section of the country and party, would destroy his alleged reputation as a strong silent man. The farm bloc says that President Coolidge can quell revolt in his party and gain enough popularity in the West to be re-elected in 1928, if he signs. But it is a fact that many farmers dislike the McNary-Haugen experiment; and it is an assumption that President Coolidge wants to run again in 1928. The President could, of course...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...
...regard to the situation in China Professor Hornbeck explained that there are two great movements, first, "a contest for power on the part of several contending Chinese leaders or groups, no one of which can lay claim to a right of legitimacy;" second "a revolt on the part of articulate China against the domination of foreign powers...
...revolt against foreign powers is the result of a century of contact during which time foreign powers and their nationals have acquired a privileged position in China. During the past half century many Chinese have studied and applied to their own country, in so far as possible, Western ideas China herself has been directly affected by development of foreign trade and disturbance of her economic equilibrium and the result is that China's leaders are dissatisfied with existing conditions there. It looking for causes they find it easy to believe that foreign powers are foremost among the causes of China...
...that all this while trained spies and agitators have crept in advance of the Nationalist army into Shanghai by twos and threes. Their propaganda, mostly in English, has taken good effect. Last week all transport workers of Shanghai and the employes of several mills went on strike?prepared to revolt and join the Nationalist army when it should draw nearer...