Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will shy an inkwell at him. Dr. Wanous has good reason to be apprehensive. With his colleague, energetic Dr. William Francis Brown, 33, he lectures on such contentious subjects as the Wagner Act, the Wages and Hours Act, the economic weapons of labor and management, the causes of industrial unrest. His students: management executives and union officials from the Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Long Beach, Calif, plant...
...bombed and strafed 1,000 shabby rebels back over the Guatemalan border. In Guatemala, meanwhile, the people celebrated their successful revolution (TIME, Oct. 30) by turning out in masses to vote in their first honest presidential election. These were just the high lights in Central America's recent unrest...
...Tyranny. Behind this shifting pattern of unrest were some solid political, economic and social facts. Central America, whose tyranny was older than Spanish rule, had been unsettled like the rest of the world by World War II. Before 1939, politically and economically, most of Central America had not yet entered the 20th Century. German and Ladino landowners raised coffee in the highlands, paid their peons as low as 20? a day, shipped much produce to Europe. U.S. fruit companies dominated the coastal jungles, paid peons higher wages but took them away again at company stores...
...people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners, and is able to hold free elections." He gave EAM the choice: obey or be suppressed. General Scobie proposed to fight unrest with food. For in Greece, as in other parts of liberated Europe, hunger and political disorder went together. For Greece last week the question was: would food or civil war get there first...
...Unrest in Rumania. In Rumania, Radio Bucharest suddenly went on the air with an unexplained warning: "[On] all elements in the population and administration that cause incidents with members of the United Nations forces [the Red Army] . . . the most severe penalties will be imposed." Radio Bucharest flashed another message: "Premier Constantin Sanatescu and his entire Cabinet have resigned." No details were given...