Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Buell complimented the Administration on its handling of the situation so far. "Roosevelt," the Professor said, "is perhaps the first president to understand the relation between Cuba's political unrest and her economic situation." The speaker called Ambassador Sumner Welles '13, one of "the ablest men in our diplomatic service...
...world, and seizing upon undergraduate interest in such problems at its present intensity, the course should not suffer from lack of attendance. It would, to a certain extent, clarify the muddled mind of the average student and make him mentally more healthy, less withdrawn and sheltered from the unquenchable unrest all about...
...legitimacy of the measure, Governor Langer's neighbors declined to join his embargo. But Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared: "The unrest in the nation is increasing. All of the anti-trust laws have been either nullified or overridden. The people are now being plundered. The prices of the farmers' products are decreasing so his throat is being cut from both ears at once. The only remedy so far in sight...
...campaign for literary purity with an effective defense of Western and Southern United States sugar concerns, was able in this piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which eventually broke over Machado's bespectacled head and threatens to keep the situation in constant turmoil until the cause is removed. If you are a liberal, the cause is simply the stupid tariff. If you happen to be a Marxist, the cause is the economic conflict...
...Japanese habit is to keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...