Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the "Bull of San Luis Potosí" was still at large. Capture of Cedillistas was announced daily, but Federal airplanes and troops combed the rugged Huasteca hills in vain for the Chief himself. At week's end, Strongman Cedillo was so bold that by short-wave radio from his hideout he gave an interview to the U. S. He claimed his revolt was spreading...
...Oxford, England, nervous, bull-necked Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...Bull" Reece '41 from Noble and Greenough School, has been awarded the three oar, while Jack Wilson '41, stroke of the Seconds and an Exeter man, will be in the number two berth...
...into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potosí" waddled off to his great Las Palomas hacienda. From there he continued to block organization drives of the Leftist CTM labor union in his State, permitted Catholic schools to continue, defiantly hung on to his huge land holdings and held up Government agrarian engineers in their efforts...
...rdenas increased the number of Federal troops in Potosí to 10,000, sent a squadron of observation planes ahead and himself boarded the million-dollar Presidential special "Olive Train" to investigate matters at first hand in the city of San Luis Potosí. There he publicly accused the Bull of Potosí of playing ball with the foreign oil companies, and announced the Government was ordering him to disband his private army...