Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offices seethed and simmered. Down the halls went whispers of revolt and counter-revolt. WPB was in the midst of a palace revolution-which would either save the day or hasten the failure...
...iron & steel men took one look at the Post story, blew up. In groups and singly, dozens walked in to Reese Taylor and tossed resignations on his desk. They were in revolt. Taylor could not answer their angry argument that discipline was impossible if any WPB hireling could publicly indict everybody else. Taylor, too, was sore. He stomped off to Nelson...
...people's man, Pedro Ernesto watched fearfully while the fascist Integralist Party waxed strong and bold under the nose of Vargas. Joining the socialistic Allianca Nacional Libertadora, Pedro Ernesto got wind of an army revolt it was planning and hurried over to Getulio to warn him. No traitor to the Allianca, Pedro Ernesto advised Vargas to nip its revolt in the bud by combining forces in a popular front. But fiercely anti-Communist Vargas smashed the revolt. Army bigwigs clamored for Pedro Ernesto's head...
Thus last week did a tragic hour, damned by logic and twisted by emotionalism, come to the subcontinent of India. In a crisis caused by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's threat of open revolt, the British struck first. The slamming of jail doors on the leaders of the Indian National Congress party was their answer to Gandhi's demand for immediate Indian independence...
...drafted" as President if Ecuadorian politics will only settle down. The second son, Captain Leonidas Plaza, who earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16 years' sentence for participation in an abortive revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement. The youngest son. Lieut. José Maria ("Pepe"), 32, banned from his homeland, risked his life in a Mexico City bull ring in a benefit appearance (gross gate: 16,000 pesos) for Ecuadorians made homeless in last spring's earthquake...