Word: flags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foolhardy General José Rafael Gabaldon raised the flag of revolt against blue-spectacled General Gomez in the distant provinces of Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
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...Seattle, Count George Hay du Barry invented a red and white signal flag for distressed motorists. On one side appears the legend STALLED! SEND TIRE MAN; on the other SEND MECHANIC, PLEASE! HAVE A HEART!! For no other wayside dilemma has: Count du Barry prepared flags...
...insurrectos held the northern half of Mexico. Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains along...
...more punctilious than Capt. von Muller of the Emden. It was his boast that between August and November 1914 the Emden destroyed 20 million dollars worth of enemy shipping, mostly British, without the loss of a single life. True, the Emden sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...