Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would be the first step toward peace...
Archbishop Schrembs blamed the revolt on a minority of 50 families. But no great throng of erring children hastened to make their submissions. Last Sunday, many a parishioner worshiped before a gaudy statue in his home. Said Nick Gambatese, as his daughters prayed to the Holy Mother: "I stay home until I find out more about it." Nicola Scricca fixed up a big altar, told reporters: "Every day we pray here-my wife and four children. Today it was our 'Mass.' I read and they are the congregation. It is the best we can do. . . . We will make...
...misery and revolt were everywhere in the land. To a fear-worn nation Franklin Roosevelt meant leadership and soccer. When in 1936 "the people approved," they did so because the New Deal stood for hope and security. If the present was not entirely without its troubles nor the future without its worries, still the people had faith in an administration which stood for something tangible--a comprehensive program of social and economic changes designed for the emergency and directed toward reform and recovery. On Election Day 1940 the people will not lightly cast aside that administration for one which offers...
...Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels ordered Nazi newspapers to fire away full blast at "plutocracy." Result: the Nazi movement was described as a "revolt against capitalism." Great Britain was pictured as a nation in which the ruling class lived in luxury while the workers starved...
...Street's Winchellian political terminology, Pierce has been called a New Dealer because of his backing of the 1938 Conway Committee revolt (TIME, Feb. 7, 1938) which purged the Old Guard from Stock Exchange leadership, installed young, earnest Bill McChesney Martin on Sing Sing First Baseman Dick Whitney's throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern...