Word: unrest
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...Have we gone mad? Have we no idea that if we carry this period of unrest from one week to another, a panic will break loose which all the tariffs under heaven will not stem? Yet we sit here to take care of some little interest in this State or that instead of rising above petty sectionalism and acting for the nation...
...entire Japanese fiscal community was on edge and fear stalked even in the Cabinet of Premier Inukai. Said Finance Minister Takahashi, "When I think of the assassination of Mr. Inouye and now of the loss of Baron Dan, I feel, and I feel most keenly, the danger of social unrest...
...Sham respectability, a survival of the mediaeval idea that instincts were from the devil, ideals from God, accounts for intense unrest in America. A psychologist is the only one who completly understands human nature...
...Unrest in Kashmir is practically chronic by reason of the rule of the Hindu Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh, over a population of 3,300,000 which is 95% Moslem. The Maharajah achieved international fame in 1924. as the celebrated "Mr. A" who had been victimized of $750,000 by European blackmailers for consorting with an Englishwoman. Moslems now complain that he shows undue official and political favors to Hindus. By rumor, the Indian Government contemplates vesting control of Kashmir in a council of ministers, equivalent to a regency...
...depression itself and the political unrest which accompanied it in many countries made American investors still more averse to foreign bonds and reduced the net American export of long-term capital in 1930 to one-third that of 1928. Consequently, when in 1930 one country after another was being forced off the gold standard, the United States, which already possessed a huge surplus of gold, drew about $278,000,000 more from the rest of the world...