Word: groves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that the Army and carabineers joined in arresting Col. Grove and 500 Communist demonstrators on whom they pounced in the streets of Santiago. But what about the Air Force? When a bomb ing plane bore down on the Presidential Palace, General Moreno and his officers looked anxious. Suddenly the plane zoomed in salute. "Hurrah!" exulted brave Col. Bravo. "Take your partners ? the dance begins...
What this may be remains to be seen, but Standard Oil Co. at once ordered a tanker to dock at Santiago and discharge its cargo. While Col. Grove was in power this tanker hovered off shore, refusing to dock though there was an acute gasoline shortage at Santiago. In a word the rich U. S. citizens who used to have every confidence in rich Ambassador Davila, had confidence last week that his "Sane" Socialism will not hurt the billion-dollar foreign interests in Chile...
Ruthless Davila. Though genial by nature, President Davila realized that if he is not to fall a second time stern measures must be taken. When railway and other strikes broke out in sympathy with Col. Grove the new Davila Government sent soldiers to run some of the trains, suspended other service. Despatches smuggled past the censor purporting to tell of counterrevolutions in various parts of Chile were firmly, officially denied, and that was that...
...Grove and his principal aides, the Government announced, were carried by a destroyer to Chile's Mas-a-Tierra ("Robinson Crusoe") Island and there imprisoned. In 1930 Col. Grove, after making a hash of the revolution his friends attempted then, was exiled to this same island, escaped...
...latest civic-minded Emery was in Europe last week so she did not see the enthusiastic people milling into the Zoo each night at dusk. She did not hear the ovation which greeted short, stocky Isaac Van Grove when he took the conductor's stand at the opening Aida. Nor did she read his statement: "When I came to Cincinnati this time I felt as though I were coming to a shrine. I could understand the emotion of the Mohammedan who makes once in his lifetime a pilgrimage to Mecca...