Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...context of our efforts at Geneva to stabilize world economy, and so minimize the privation and unrest that lead to Communism and possible war, the amendment seems again a bootless move. Undersecretary of State Clayton has felt sufficiently convinced of this to return from Geneva and oppose the amendment...
...evidence of the unrest in the gaudy, noisy streets of Casablanca? It would be wrong to give an exaggerated impression of panic, but. there is some such evidence. I note more sullen faces than were to be seen during the war years. Ahmed Moulouya Hadj, a bearded, bronzed Arab who has brought his vegetables from the sub-Atlantic plains to the Casablanca markets for the last 14 years, told me: 'We farmers are no longer the only ones who count. The country is becoming industrialized, with new habits, new men and new ideas. I am not sure what will...
...insisted that last year's situation was really transitory, and that current labor unrest has arisen because "we have not yet had time to become attuned" to laws passed under the New Deal...
...there speakers agreed that current laws, if passed, would overload the N.L.R.B. and increase industrial unrest...
However, using "stupid" works of art as a propaganda means in times of unrest, as Soviet Russia frequently does today, rather than depicting a true and realistic glimpse of society, is deplorable. "No Hamlet or Lear could be produced," said Professor Matthiessen, "if pessimism were only a thing of the past...