Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people had lost their lives, 300 were wounded. Behind the flag-draped coffins of the loyal soldiers walked spry, spare General Carmona, his jaw clenched, his head up. Government officials announced that two leaders of the revolt, Major Sarmento de Beires (who flew to Brazil in 1927) and Col. Diaz Antunes will not face a firing squad but will be sent to disintegrate in swampy, fever-ridden Portuguese West Africa...
United Fruit did not have to wait long for its answer. Exactly one week after the Logtown outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America?civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports...
...Matanzas, bombs shattered furniture in the homes of Senators Horacio Diaz Pardo and Manuel Vera Vedura. Six conspirators were arrested...
...Majesty, after deliberating off & on for 22 years, finally handed down his decision as arbiter between France and Mexico in the forgotten matter of minute Clipperton Island, 700 miles off the Mexican shore, annexed by France in 1857, seized by Mexican Dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1897. Last week the bantam King gave Clipperton Island finally to France...
Protestant success fretted the Catholic hierarchy until, last week, Archbishop Diaz burst out with a diatribe to which he shrewdly gave a nation and political tone. His argument was loaded with international dynamite...