Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg. The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago...
...speech the day before by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Walsh in which he flayed the Administration for "niggardliness" in its relief plans. Declared Senator Walsh: "There are worse misfortunes tHan heavy taxes. One is the failure of the Government to remove the spectre of starvation and misery and idleness and unrest." Another provocation was the Senate's preference for a $60,000,000 drought relief program over the administration...
...Victor Guillemin, Jr. of the Physics department will address the Harvard Socialist Club on Tuesday, December 11, in Straus Hall Common Room at 8 o'clock on "Student Unrest in Europe". Dr. Guillemin has spent many years among the students in the various European universities and has been able to observe closely the background and workings of student radicalism...
...does the press of the world countenance so many lies?" asked Voroshilov, and Stalin said, "They want to make the world think the Soviets started this counter-revolutionary trial [TIME, Nov. 24] as a smoke-screen to hide our supposed starvation, unrest and what...
When the expedition reaches Africa it has a hard time finding any land to colonize, at last settles on a strip of jungle-fringed seacoast. Meantime Harvey's sly companions spread unrest in the group, most of them leave. In the end it develops that the land is already a British possession. Defeated, cast off by all save a mulatto girl, Harvey realizes that the only reason she has stood by him is because she is not pure Negro but part white. Actor Wilson's role is played with earnestness and fervor, but the play has not been...