Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total Legion personnel of 14,000 have already reached Saigon, and more are being hurried thither from Syria and Morocco. In Paris last week was His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China, come at the urgent request of the High Colonial Council to discuss native unrest in his Far East bailiwick...
...some time there has been a growing unrest in the educational world. Material evidence of this has been given in the progressive reforms of such colleges as Yale, Rollins, and Wisconsin. Chicago, for a long time, has been a leader in the movement for a less mechanized and more liberal curriculum...
...hour later the Oropesa pulled out of the harbor with the princes on board and a parting gift of twelve boxes of ripe red Bermuda strawberries. Four days later the slow Oropesa was in Havana harbor, dropped anchor for five hours. Possibly because of Cuban political unrest, officially because the British Court is still in mourning for the Princess Royal, H. R. H. Victoria, sister of King George, Their Royal Highnesses set no foot on Cuban ground. Only potent gentlemen to meet them were British Minister Thomas J. Morris, Cuban Secretary of State Francisco Maria Fernandez and President Machado...
Rongus resembled Samson in physique and simplicity. He was soon lost in admiration of Barzor's guile and determination, did exactly as he was told. By a complicated chain of cunning schemes they fomented unrest in Jerusalem, lured the Roman forces far from the city and were about to strike?when their necessary figurehead, the man who was to head the revolt, fell fatally ill. Then everything turned against the conspirators; the priests of the Temple made peace with Pilate; the Roman army from Syria arrived; Barzor and Rongus were captured, quickly condemned to death...
...reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under oppression. The recommendations of the Fish Report once put into execution might not only supply food and nourishment to hundreds of Red publications, but also produce an hysteria throughout the country on rather dubious premises. To arouse the expectation of economic and social unrest would do little to assure business stability...