Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks Honolulu seethed with unrest. Dan Campbell, United Pressman, was threatened with death for cabling the mainland truthfully stark accounts of conditions. Native attacks on white women became so prevalent, protection by the native police appeared so ineffective and bungling, that admirals in charge at Pearl Harbor publicly announced that Oahu was unsafe for the wives of naval officers. Then came the Kahahawai murder?apparently a blinding flash of white revenge...
...Oklahoma favors a Murray candidacy. This month the Tulsa World said of its Governor: "He has a tricky mind and a cunning appeal. Like a jackass braying into an empty rain barrel, he mistakes the sound and fury for wisdom and profundity. He encourages and agitates unrest and class hatred. We apologize for having supported him. To go with him further is like walking through a slaughter house to an open grave...
...subject of Professor Morize's talk will be "An Epoch in French Literature, 1918 to 1930--From Unrest to Reconstruction." Professor von der Leyen will give an address on "Old and Rare German Manuscripts, from the eighth to the 13th Century...
Bamboo whips, bayonets, machine guns and the guillotine were not enough. As a final effort Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud was in Hanoi last week to do what he could to settle the growing unrest in French Indo-China...
...speaker neatly manipulated chalk and eraser to convert DEPRESSION into PRESS ON; from others came vague assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period of men tal and spiritual unrest." ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin, Mo. Dirt-Doubers Sirs: Sapient Bermudans who foretell the hurricane season in Bermuda by observing spiders weaving their skeins on low bushes instead of up in tree tops, as told in TIME, Sept. 21, have nothing on Negroes living on either bank of the muddy Roanoke River...