Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trenchant order Franklin Roosevelt averted a revolt in his own War Labor Board...
Sullen Sabotage. Meanwhile the prisoners constantly meditated revolt. A "Central Committee" of three met secretly, formulated plans for outwitting the Nazis. They composed striking slogans. As the prisoners labored in Stettin's factories, they muttered loud enough to be heard by the German workers: "For every prisoner compelled to slave for Germany, there will be one German corpse in the plains of Russia." They slowed down the work as much as they dared...
...P.M.W. was organized out of a bitter revolt against Lewis' high-handed methods, waged organizing battles with U.M.W. plug-uglies in which more than a score were killed. They erected a $250,000 monument to a tubthumping, whiskey-loving woman organizer, "Mother Jones" from Pennsylvania, whose most celebrated saying was, "Let not that traitor John Lewis ever breathe the air above my grave." "Mother Jones" turned up for all of P.M.W.'s toughest campaigns. Annually a giant memorial is held at her grave in Mt. Olive...
...Revolt of the Nags. In The Bronx, a junk-wagon horse named Brownie ran away on a hot day, clattered down a flight of steps to a cellar door, broke in, relaxed in comfort. In Brooklyn, a milkwagon horse named Jerry deserted the beat he had been traveling for 13 years, clumped 17 miles off his course, stopped in front of a house, went to the front door and knocked. He got a two-day vacation...
...turned frustrated and sullen under the new repression. Those of their leaders who had not been seized by the Badoglio police in the first days of open jubilation over Mussolini's fall went underground again. Now by clandestine press and radio they declared civil war: "Italy arise! . . . Insorgere (revolt)! . . . The Government of Badoglio is Fascism without Mussolini." In the popular front against Italy's traditional rulers-the militarists, the aristocracy and the clerics-stood five parties: ^ Socialists, the biggest group, their ranks reformed three years...