Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnstown, Pa. was the week's new and major trouble focus. Events here loomed large because they brought into the Steel struggle another big company, another type of local reaction to the national unrest, another glimpse of John L. Lewis' juggernaut intentions and power, and another Governor capable of positive action...
...convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy, Author Feuchtwanger has this to say: "A stranger visiting Samosata or Edessa would never have thought that the country was in a state of unrest. He would have had the impression that the people were quite satisfied with Nero's rule and quite happy under...
...Denmark, Kingdom of Reason by Agnes Rothery; the Viking Press ($3). Excerpt: "In a universe pitching in unrest she [Denmark] maintains her equilibrium. In a Europe seething with hatred and riven by distress, she blooms in contentment and cheerful industry...
...makers of boyish fun dissent from such public discipline, let them reflect for a moment upon their own private situation. University students today live in a time of serious economic unrest, not to say social crisis. Lawless action has been rife in many an industrial quarter. There exists a threat, both overt and implied, to the whole American order of education, technology, law, business and industry, in which the youth of America's colleges hope to take future places of leadership, or at least of steady and gainful employment...
...General Motors strike, makes it eminently clear that it will not tolerate the rights of a majority of the workers to be trampled upon, or until Congress repeals those provisions of the Act, it seems clear that the reign of sit-down strikes and general, unhealthy labor unrest will continue unchecked...