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Word: amaro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed on an injury to his eye. General Amaro's eye was reported fully recovered but just in case it should go bad again, President Portes Gil persuaded General Calles not to go off, as he had planned, on a European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Calles Retires | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

From a Cabinet Minister, such a Deadwood Dick account was white hot news. But what of the Presidential announcement of the burning to death of Senora Refugia Obregon Ponce de Leon? That confessed War Minister Amaro, had been a slightly premature announcement. The Senora Ponce de Leon had been expected to travel by the attacked train but, actually, she remained safe at Guadalajara. Disgusted correspondents who had cabled this news as fact throughout the world, resolved to cable no more until eye-witness refugee's arrived from the scene of atrocity. They came on a special train which steamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Atrocity | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...crown the anti-Yaqui campaign of the week, came news that War Minister Amaro was seriously wounded by a reputed Yaqui sniper near Ocotlan- though in other despatches he who sniped was said to be a mutinied Mexican trooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Many a Shot | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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