Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, told a Hunt Hall audience last night that a Communist majority in the coming Italian elections would result in a Fascist revolt, although he expressed the belief that the Communists have no chance and "I think they know...
...most fun the Republicans had all week was listening to caterwauling Democrats, squirming under the President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
...bitterest - chapter in Lane's book, however, is his detailed reconstruction of the tragic 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, a story full of confusion at the time, but one that in his telling becomes pathetically plain. On July 29, 1944, a Moscow broadcast urged Warsaw to revolt to hasten the entry of Russian troops, then only ten kilometers away. The underground Polish army, led by General Bor, went into action on Aug. 1. The next day it had two-thirds of Warsaw under control. As the Nazis hit back with savage plane attacks, Polish emigré leaders begged...
...could hardly be called a satisfactory season, not by any criterion. And, like every losing team, this one was afflicted with rumors of dissension in the ranks, or "player revolt." This time, perhaps, they weren't all rumors...
...leaders of the 1934 Crimson revolt which set up the rival Journal, an incident described herein; now Managing Editor of Life Magazine...