Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports from Turkey concerning the Kurdish revolt (TIME, Mar. 9) were hopelessly confused...
...born in a small village near Canton, where the people are the "old" Chinese, driven south centuries ago. As a boy, he traveled far to reside with his brother, a prosperous contractor, at Honolulu. There the spark of revolt against the lethargic and superstitious regime of the Son of Heaven was ignited. His brother feared for him, sent him back to his native village; but he had not long been there before he committed an act of irreverence toward a village god and was consequently expelled...
...into its own. Where the right of the workers to organize is conceded and collective bargaining is practiced, the possibility of strikes is minimized, but where the exercise of this right is denied and the workers are not permitted to act collectively through their chosen representatives, a spirit of revolt manifests itself and the resort to strikes becomes increasingly probable. Capital realizes this and becomes increasingly willing to withdraw its opposition to the rights of labor. Trade-unions are pioneers in demanding free education and the abolition of child-labor...
...adjourn"; and then, leaning over the rostrum, called in a stage whisper to the clerk: "Where in thunder is the gentleman from Ohio?" When no answer came, he put the motion and declared it carried. Those days are past forever. When Joseph G. Cannon was Speaker, the revolt of 1910 stripped him of his autocratic power; and Champ Clark, who succeeded him, did not care to offend anyone (because he had aspirations for the presidency) by pressing his authority. The job which Mr. Longworth is to take over is, thus, largely stripped of its authority. Some say that another strong...
Fethi Bey, Turkish Prime Minister, last week turned his head this way and that, like a victim in the hands of a photographer, but never would he look in the lens. At last he gave up his evasive fight, admitted that the Kurds had revolted, under the leadership of Sheik Said, against the National Turkish Government at Angora. He further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts were called to the colors. General Ismet...