Word: insurgentes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs on La Paz. Before Mollinedo could strike outside the capital, insurgent army officers and civilians moved on police headquarters and other government buildings in every provincial capital. By the end of the first week's fighting, they had picked up support from the Trotskyite Workers Revolutionary Party (P.O.R...
Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28) opened in Boston last week. It was a box-office sellout. But the theater was picketed-by an organization called the Sons of Liberty (an insurgent Jewish group renounced by both U.S. and British Zionists) and a delegation from the Irish...
Outsider In. Six months ago, old (66) hawk-nosed Sosthenes Behn was jarred into relaxing his one-man control of the International Telephone & Telegraph. Insurgent stockholders, led by Financier Clendenin Ryan, had succeeded in electing seven (out of 23) directors (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week, Behn voluntarily relaxed some more...
That was in 1914. La Guardia ran and lost in a congressional district where no Republican had won since the party's founding. But he came back again to win the seat twice, to be Congressman from another district five times, and later to become New York City'...
Jimmy Walker, a cynic in such matters, once quizzically asked La Guardia: "Fiorello, what are you in politics for, for love?" The Making of an Insurgent suggests that he was, in a way.