Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long statement to the press, General Calles reviewed his work as a leader of the "Grand Revolutionary Party."* He praised the party for the social and economic advances it had made, criticised it for political backwardness, as follows...
Eyeing the quarrels and troubles of Russia's Communist leaders was elegant Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov, from his French villa at Saint-Briac. Chief pretender to the throne of Ah The Russias...
...Grand Duke Cyril admitted for the first time that the monarchists have a counter revolutionary organization at work in the Soviet Union...
...Grand Duke Cyril's suspicions of internal trouble in Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during...
...next morning Capone faced the detective line-up at 9:30 a. m., was indicted by the Grand Jury at 10:25 a. m. for carrying concealed weapons, went on trial at 11:30 a. m., pleaded guilty (with Cline) at 12:15 p. m., started a year's sentence at 12:50 p. m. Exactly 16 hrs. 35 min. elapsed between his arrest and the beginning of his sentence-a record. Remarked Capone: "They work fast here...