Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployed New Zealanders poured down Queen Street, Auckland, smashing windows, looting and hooting. Three hundred were arrested, 130 wounded, $500,000 worth of property ruined. One day last week a less unruly but no less discontented mob-this time, businessmen-poured into Auckland to apply pressure in their own ways. The 1932 mob wanted things they had no money for; last week's mob wanted the right to buy things they had money for. In that turnabout was summarized the New Zealand revolution of the last three years...
...Zealand is not only breathtakingly beautiful but socially remarkable. Her history has been marked by long and clear-cut periods of alternate radicalism and conservatism. Between 1890 and 1912 a progressive Government passed graduated income taxes, woman suffrage, labor regulation and old-age pension acts, and other laws which were models for liberal legislators elsewhere. The way the Maoris were treated-today they are the only Polynesian people who are increasing-was and is a criterion for other governments with native problems to follow...
...riding in on a wave of prosperity, conservatives took over New Zealand, and though the Labor Party periodically showed its head (there were serious strikes in 1913, 1916, 1921-22), dominated politics and policies for the next 23 years...
...head of New Zealand's Government when the world depression hit bottom in 1931 was Prime Minister George William Forbes, whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger...
Other countries represented include Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Guatemala, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Roumania, Siam, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Vonezuela, and Wales...