Word: embroglio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid this doubtful embroglio Brigadier General Logan Feland, commanding the 1,200 U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, issued a general exhortation to "untiring exertion" by Marines during "the next two months," because after that the rainy season will set in and thereafter it would admittedly be impossible to subdue the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino, hardy guerilla & patriot, now indomitably in arms against U. S. intervention...
...elementary forms of native government were untrue. The ideas of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena are born of the same stuff as was the Declaration of Independence, but it is doubtful if their island is yet ready to essay a trial in government that may result in a Pacific embroglio...
...Insurance Company. Feeling ran high on both sides throughout this financial feud, and in one Directors' meeting Mr. Fish struck and floored J. T. Harahan, who had succeeded him as President of the Illinois Central. A romantic and spirited, if not entirely accurate, narrative of the Harriman-Fish embroglio has recently been written by Garet Garett in his latest novel, The Driver. Mr. Fish was a railroad executive of the old order, rough and ready in speech, cautious in administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part...