Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economic Stabilizer Bowles called the bill "an outright fraud . . . a monstrous thing" and promised to ask for a presidential veto if the bill passed in its present state. C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded an ominous warning of new outbreaks of labor unrest...
...Quezon's The Good Fight was ready to be published in October 1944-but was delayed because of the protests of Sergio Osmeña, who became President on Quezon's death. Osmeña protested that its publication might "assist" the Jap war effort or cause "unrest" among the Filipinos. Some of Quezon's friends have seen political motives in this attitude, noting that while The Good Fight speaks in generally friendly terms of Osmeña, it gives higher praise to Manuel Roxas, Osmeña's victorious rival in the 1946 presidential campaign...
...present unrest is not the result of a feeling contrary to the government. It arises partly from social reasons, from economic conditions. My purpose is ... to relieve these conditions and ... to deal firmly for the maintenance...
...Unrest. May Day in Vienna saw 200,000 Socialists and a mere 20,000 Communists in rival parades. But the lack of animosity between them was notable. Said a Socialist: "Give us a kilo of fat and you'd see the marching...
...state of unrest gives the government an excuse for violating . . . freedom of the press. . . . Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Gazeta Ludowa was permitted to print only watered-down versions of the Peasant Party attack on Communist control. . . . Such restraints do not apply to the Communist organ Glos Ludu, which can fill its columns with reckless charges against Mikolajczyk. This journal's recent reference to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, as 'a sworn and deserving follower and defender of Hitler' will give some measure of its madness...