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Word: unrest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision of the English coalition cabinet to hold a general election on October 27 is directly opposed to the statement of two weeks ago that any political unrest would be unfavorable to the best solution of the present economic difficulties. The cause for this seeming inconsistency is undoubtedly that the government feels, since the withdrawal of the Labor party's support, that the cabinet's strength is not sufficient to establish the proposed reforms. Thus at the cost of a few days of uncertainty, the government seeks a more permanent and secure stabilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SUN NEVER SETS | 10/7/1931 | See Source »

...lowering of age limits six million votes are added to the electorate. This now element combines with the very unrest which is bringing on the election to make the outcome undeterminate. The Labor party, at present the largest faction in the House of Commons, is conceeded a chance for victory. Since the calming hand of MacDonald has been removed, the platform of the Laborites has become more radical. Now the party has announced its firm belief in socialism as the only real solution for all the evils caused by capitalism and unregulated competition. It proposes as a remedy governmental control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SUN NEVER SETS | 10/7/1931 | See Source »

...there could be a real rapprochement between France and Germany, not only in words but in action, that would remove, I world." believe, 75% of the political unrest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Twelfth Assembly | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the city there was unrest and panic. Retail business was at a standstill. A few smaller firms did not open. Police were recalled from vacations and the 148th Infantry held ready. The Inverness Golf Club, scene or the recent National Open tournament, was closed by its board of directors, all help was dismissed except two greenskeepers. Ira Fulton, superintendent of Ohio Banks, called together more than 100 frightened country bankers who were hit by the trouble, tried to calm them. From neighboring States, 100 bank examiners set out to help straighten Toledo's muddle. Brokers widely discussed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: More Bank Trouble | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...anniversary of Rerum Novarum approached, the roundheaded, 73-year-old man in the Vatican who 40 years ago was an energetic priest fond of mountain-climbing, and who since has shown himself one of the great Statesman-Popes, beheld the industrial and financial worlds again seething with a great unrest. In Russia the overturn had come, violently, and Mother Church had suffered there with Capitalism. Throughout the world, even Capitalists were saying, "Capitalism is not perfect. It must mend itself and mankind." Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, perceived that the appropriate moment again had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Forty Years After | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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