Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, called on his countrymen to revolt and join the United Nations, only two weeks after he had hired Pressagent Russell Birdwell to build him up as a democrat. Birdwell released the call to the news papers, appended a note announcing that he had dutifully registered with the Department of Justice as Carol's agent, added: "The fact should not be construed as approval of the United States Government of the contents of this release...
...pronouncement, the editor & publisher of The Sporting News had gingerly suggested that behavior problems, not salary bickering, were separating Brooklyn's president and manager. Durocher's five-year record was good: one pennant, two seconds, two thirds. But last season the Dodgers had a player revolt, barely finished third. Lippy Leo was as flashy a figure along high-living Broadway as in Ebbets Field. Knowing Rickey's puritanism, many a sportswriter flatly forecast the lumps...
Chances for a tax bill this year looked very slim. Main reason for the delay: Congressional GOPsters, quietly abetted by many a vote-minded Democrat, staged a revolt. The revolt turned into a coup. By week's end Congress seemed agreed: no economy in the Administration, no tax bill. Furthermore, went the argument, the Administration had yet to demonstrate a real need for another $10.5 billion...
...Moslem revolt was not thoroughly quelled until the fall of 1937. By that time Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's far distant Central Government was at war with Japan and all its energy was absorbed. For Sheng Shih-tsai, the problem was simple. He represented the minority race in a vast region surcharged with racial and religious tension; his immense fear of Japanese imperialism grew as Japan drove farther and farther into the heart of Asia. Without help, he could not maintain himself. Thus, from 1934 to 1942. he leaned ever more heavily on the U.S.S.R...
...Plan A." Vichy was slipping, and the Nazis knew it. They did what they could. A specially trained German army rumbled to the revolt areas of the Savoie and the Haute-Savoie to clean out the underground at any cost. The French Garde Mobile was given orders to shoot on sight. The death penalty was decreed for all Frenchmen caught aiding grounded Allied flyers. At last, all else failing, German authorities told the Vichy Government that the long-threatened "Plan A" would be put into effect...