Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the bulletins that were issued last week from Craigwell House, Bognor, where the King-Emperor rests after his illness, was one over the signatures of Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's Chief Physicians. Innocent sounding enough, it was secretly carried to London, and submitted to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Prince of Wales before being published...
Mighty Battle. The chief engagement impending last week
...federal army which took Vera Cruz ?and appeared to have squelched the revolution south of Mexico City?was commanded by General Juan Andreu. now chief of staff to General Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...causes of the present civil war are purely religious. There is also the very strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General...
...more authoritative statement was made in Sonora on behalf of Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela, presidential candidate and El Capitan de los Cristeros: "When the federal government comes to its senses and sends Calles out of the republic and Fortes Gil (provisional president) agrees to permanent legal operations of government and the carrying out of elections, religious liberty and the pursuit of business without the interference of assassins, then all associated with the revolutionary movement will agree to a settlement...