Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PORFIRIO DIAZ...
From Washington, D. C., the State Department reaffirmed its inflexible purpose to supervise a "fair" election in Nicaragua. Jurists opined that both the Constitution and Chamber of Deputies of Nicaragua might possibly be circumvented by having President Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua (a U. S. puppet) authorize U. S. supervision of the election by Presidential decree, after the Chamber has risen...
...pomp that Italy could muster was displayed at Marshal Diaz's state funeral, last week, but it paled before two simple scenes enacted while the dead hero yet lay in his own small room at Rome, with four tall candles at the corners of his iron...
Later Il Duce informs the Chamber of Deputies, characteristically, that "Marshal Diaz's whole life might be summed up in the one word 'duty.' " As everyone knows, that is the one word which Il Duce never tires of dinning into weary Italian noodles...
Died. Field Marshal Armando Diaz, 66, in Rome...