Word: insurgentes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson's Presidency was "a series of battles in which he exhibited the same qualities that had distinguished his military career. In his own view he fought for the people and the Union as before he had battled for the Republic." He left a profound impress on the office...
Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength...
The village smith of Landgrove, Vt. (pop. 64) is Samuel Robinson Ogden, 46, Swarthmore graduate, architect, World War I veteran, former legislator, author of a book on gardening (How to Grow Food for Your Family) and schoolteacher. He is also a colorful character and the insurgent candidate for the Republican...
The painting, which has aroused storms of both favorable and unfavorable comment, depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937 by the air force of insurgent General France. It was done by Picasso for the Loyalist government as a condemnation of the raid which virtually annihilated the...