Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"He was a leader of national revolution ... of social revolution ... of religious revolution. . . . How daringly and with what utter abandon Jesus endeavored to rescue the church and society of that day from its myriad ills and to awaken the masses from their ignorance! . . . Struggle and sacrifice are a revolutionary'...
As in his other biographies, Emil Ludwig takes factual material already at hand -in this case Ernest K. Lindley's The Roosevelt Revolution and Half Way with Roosevelt-draws his own "psychological" picture. No study of Franklin Roosevelt in house slippers, the result is something like an expensive, formal...
Great Britain's colonial administrators have had for 100 years the vexing and recurrent problem of the whites and blacks in Jamaica, her largest West Indian possession. Anticipating complete emancipation by seven years, Jamaica's slaves first rose in a quickly-crushed rebellion in 1831. Independent white planters...
Death Is So Fair ranks far below masterpieces of the Irish Civil War like Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer or the stories of Sean O'Faolain. But it has a peculiar, acrid flavor, as harsh as the smell of rifle fire, which stamps Author D'...
Proudest achievement of the socialist-minded Mexican Government is its school system. In 1910 Mexico had only 600 State-supported schools and 70% of its citizens were illiterate. But the post-revolution constitution of 1917 decreed free, secular education for all. By 1921 President Obregón began to send...