Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve years ago the South rose in hotheaded revolt, sent its voters to the polls, and knocked over a political tradition which had stood firm for half a century. Democratic since the last Yankee administrator went home in 1877, the South...
...upheaval and having heard that it might be repeated, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie announced that he would try to break the Solid South again in 1940. Too soon it was to judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
President Cardenas moved the following day to cool off the labor revolt, which threatened to spread to Communist-dominated unions. He issued a stern ultimatum to workers on the railroads not to split from CTM. He warned oil workers that unless they reorganized the entire industry within a reasonable time, he would cut wages, drop bonuses and take "other steps to get the industry back on a paying basis." The President's warning went down badly and not only the oil and rail workers, but also Government employes in the communications services threatened a general strike...
...last time the world went mad the turning point in the Near East was the revolt of the Arabs. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a magnificent introvert from Wales, organized the Arabs for the revolt which broke Turkey's power and set up Great Britain's and France's control over what are now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Oman, Aden and the Hadramaut. That Britain planned a similar campaign appeared in July when she made Emperor Haile Selassie, the ex-Lion of Judah, her formal ally in order to have his aid in raising revolt...
Ethiopia is no Arab-country, and far from wanting to raise a revolt among the Arabs who came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn...