Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of a half-free, half-open convention got added confirmation from an unexpected source. Shrewd old Jesse Jones published a signed front-page editorial in his Houston Chronicle denouncing the recent anti-New Deal revolt in Texas. The wiseacres reasoned: Jesse had waited until .the Southerners had won their bargain, i.e., the dropping of Henry Wallace, before blasting the rebels, who are far closer to his heart than the New Dealers. In Columbus, National Chairman Robert Hannegan turned up with his own list of seven Vice Presidential possibilities. He then hurried to Washington and an hour-long conference with...
...looked as though Tanner's Social Democrats (85 out of 200 Diet seats) would revolt. But the effective time had passed. Germans were arriving every day, parading the streets of Helsinki and singing mechanically. The citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near...
...Dictator's troubles had only begun. The disciplined people's strike which overthrew El Salvador's Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez (TIME, May 29) set a pattern for revolt in Central America. Reports from neighboring countries revealed that plans for a similar campaign in Guatemala were already well advanced. Cleverer than Martinez and no less ruthless, Ubico clearly intended to drown any such movement in blood. In repression, his was a practiced hand...
...Seat. Now a breath of hope stirs Guatemala. The successful revolt in El Salvador excited all Central America (TIME, May 22). There, the U.S. State Department did not intervene (as many expected) to checkmate a people's rebellion. Even in terrorized Guatemala, the news reached the people, made them wonder whether their Dictator also was vulnerable...
Ubico has heard the murmur. For years he planned "to leave the Presidency only for the cemetery." After El Salvador's revolt, he said: "A ruler should know in the seat of his pants when he ought to get out of his chair...