Word: huerta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...articles under embargo, were restored to the embargo list. 4) The U.S. sold to Mexico some 10,000 Enfield rifles and 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition from U. S. reserve stores. This was done on precedent?5,000 rifles were sold to Mexico at the time of the Huerta revolution in 1924, and payment was promptly made...
...Victoriano Huerta," Professor Haring Sever...
...paradoxical were the successes of Obregon may be judged from three facts: 1) He won recognition for his Government from President Harding; 2) He "borrowed" $5,000,000 from. Edward L. Doheny; 3) He was saved from being ousted by a revolt led by General Adolfo de La Huerta, when President Calvin Coolidge declared an embargo on arms destined for Huerta, then permitted Obregon and Calles...
Last week General Adolfo de la Huerta, once for a brief time Provisional President of Mexico, now in bitter exile at Los Angeles, Calif., said: "I lament the passing of Obregon, because I would have liked to have had him live long enough to pay for his many sins...
...following day General Alfonso de la Huerta, brother of General Adolfo de la Huerta, was captured, tried and shot. "Here is another rebel general," read the placard that was affixed to his body as it was exhibited publicly in Nogales, Sonora...