Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honor and Msambi Juice. Shocked by the terror loosed when the Indian National Congress party was driven to open revolt, Bhansali became involved in investigations of an incident at the village of Chimur. There a mob killed three constables and a sub-inspector, then burned their bodies. British troops arrested 321 men, imposed a collective fine of 100,000 rupees on Chimur's Hindus, and sentenced 20 to be hanged, 26 to life imprisonment. Later the British modified their punishment (14 to die; 27 to receive life sentences), but ruled out Indian protests that the soldiers had looted homes...
...entire industrial organization movement. The first in months to violate labor's anti-strike pledge, the union is no run-of-the-mill union, but rather John L. Lewis' own United Mine Workers. This is not the usual workers vs. management strike; instead it is a rank and file revolt against autocratic union leadership which railroaded through the recent dues increase...
...seem absurd to some. Yet to conclude otherwise is to forsake the only ethics on which a free society may hope to thrive. (I am talking, of course, about the political rights of a minority, about free speech and free assembly, not about conspiracies or assassinations looking towards armed revolt...
Henry Morgenthau Jr. stepped into the Treasury in 1934 fresh from organizing the Farm Credit Administration and on the flush tide of farm-labor revolt against the evils of Wall Street. The pattern of war finance and the civilian economy show the revolt brought to its logical conclusion. The farm bloc ganged up with the labor bloc to smash Henry Morgenthau's dreamboat of a withholding tax. The farm bloc, ganging up with the Silver States, kept the absurd silver legislation on the books. And the farm bloc made hash of inflation control. Though wholesale prices during the year...
...John Archer Lejeune, 75, ex-Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920-29), commander of the famed Second Division in World War I; in Baltimore. Chunky, lion-headed, seam-faced, Barrel-chested, he joined the Marines in 1890, commanded the Marines in Panama during the 1903 revolution, put down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept...