Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile in Spain there stirred the embers of revolution which always blaze up when His Majesty leaves the country. The latest previous outburst was during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...
Accompanying the Busch outburst was a Busch declaration of support for Nominee Smith. Democrats rejoiced. "As go the Germans," wrote Correspondent Charles Michelson to the New York World, "so goes St. Louis and as goes St. Louis, so goes the State." Example: When Harry Bartow Howes, Missouri's present junior U. S. Senator, was running for office in 1926, an opponent belittled his act, at the beginning of the War, of escorting the late Mrs. Lily Busch out of Germany. The German vote arose, swept Howes to office...
...faced a special problem. . . ." Tolerance. During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when "the hand of privilege" was pictured throttling the farmer and picking his pockets. At the close of Permanent Chairman Robinson's address a more spontaneous outburst was touched off by these words: "Jefferson gloried in the Virginia statute of religious freedom. He rejoiced in the provision of the Constitution that declares no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for office or trust in the United States...
Intelligence. More impressive than any outburst was the attentive silence which obtained in the monster convention hall during the quiet speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the third time since 1920 that Mr. Roosevelt had placed his friend, Alfred Emanuel Smith, in nomination for the Presidency. In those eight years, Mr. Roosevelt had been crippled by, but now had almost recovered from, infantile paralysis. With his limp and cane and the stretch of suffering on his face, he might have made an appeal to the audience more emotional than any of the other speakers. Instead, he held himself erect...
...Supreme Pontiff's outburst came after a Centrist Catholic political rally had assembled at Rome, last week, and adopted a resolution pledging loyalty to the Papacy and the State in the same breath. Further, the Centrist convention waited upon Il Duce but sought no audience with His Holiness. Further still, they resolved: "The identity, ideals, and views of the Centrists are identical with those of Fascism...