Word: gomezes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This was not accomplished without some hard fighting in which the Federal troops were always reported as victorious. Many rebels were captured. General Arnulfo Gomez, the only remaining opposition candidate to one-armed General Alyaro Obregon, was said to be in hiding in the mountains and seeking an opportunity to escape from the country...
...before, for prosecution on the mere strength of the evidence he had would have laid him more than ever open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping, no doubt, that the affair would blow over, but ready to seize upon any overt treason with a severity that has, as events have turned out, gained him the sobriquet of Mexico's man of iron...
...Calles administration is tacitly supporting, just as the Obregon administration, when it was in power, tacitly supported President Elias Plutarco Calles. Then as now there was a revolution; then led by General Adolfo de la Huerta, at present an exile in the U. S.; now led by Generals Arnulfo Gomez and, until his execution, Francisco Serrano...
...immediate cause of the attempted revolution was the opposition of Generals Serrano and Gomez to the re-election of General Obregon, they being the only candidates standing against Obregon. The fundamental cause of the revolt may be attributed to the almost traditional resort to arms of Mexican aspirants to the presidential power, as witness a long line of successful and unsuccessful revolutions...
Within a single day after the first shot had been fired General Francisco Serrano was captured, tried by summary court martial and shot as a traitor. Rumors to the effect that General Arnulfo Gomez had suffered a like fate subsequently proved to be false, he being annoyingly at large. But with General Serrano died no less than 13 generals and private citizens, convicted of aiding...