Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people," writes Spivak, "know that they are hungry but they do not realize that Mussolini, faced with the imminent collapse of his regime because of the condition of Italian industry, the disintegration of the middle class and the increasing unrest among workers reduced to less than a subsistence level, was virtually compelled to make this gamble for Ethiopia. With that land in his grasp Mussolini would have a place for his unemployed, he would have raw materials which Italy sorely needs and could borrow money from the world's bankers on the conquered country's undeveloped resources...
More headlines were made when Howard S. Cullman, a Roper appointee to the National Committee on Safety at Sea, got his personal pressagent to distribute a tart public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
...most deserving bloc of veterans has always been killed off by the end of the war" was unanswerable; and its plan to pay the bonus before the war was equally logical. Considered in their entirety, the claims were not exorbitant. They were, moreover, a definite proof of the unrest that is sweeping the nation's campi...
...Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy Father might show himself were mostly women and children...
Immediately Laborites & Liberals comprising His Majesty's Loyal Opposition introduced a motion that "This House . . . has no confidence in His Majesty's Ministers whose unworthy and outrageous foreign policy has largely contributed to the present state of world unrest." No one in the House last week thought this motion could succeed against Squire Baldwin's solid majority of Conservative...