Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress' Answer. In the general House revolt the little understood question of subsidies had become a rallying cry. This puzzled citizens who had not watched the fight closely. Why did the idea of sub sidies, successful in Britain, make Congress...
...Congress, the old feud between the President and his legislative branch had flared into the kind of revolt that had sapped the nation's strength in two previous great wars. There Information Director Elmer Davis was a chief victim...
...whatever the final outcome, the House's revolt was of immense significance. War or no war, the House blowoff might yet be a constructive blow for legislative government. Franklin Roosevelt must win back Congressional support at all costs, and the price Congress really demands is intelligent administration of the home front. If the President does not choose to pay the price, he may find himself in the unhappy, hamstrung position of the World War I President, Woodrow Wilson...
...with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities to come...
...young lieutenant, Palito was sent to learn with Kaiser Wilhelm's 5th Hussars. Well trained, Lieut. Ramirez returned home, devoted himself to rising via captain and colonel to general and Minister of War. In 1930 he made a name for himself in the last generals' revolt, that of Jose Uriburu, who ousted, unconstitutionally, President Hipolito Irigoyen. As a reward, he became military attache in Rome...