Word: lara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foolhardy General José Rafael Gabaldon raised the flag of revolt against blue-spectacled General Gomez in the distant provinces of Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...
...Five generals with a force large enough to exterminate a number of unpatriotic countrymen who have uprisen in the states of Lara, Trujillo and Portuguesa, left yesterday for those districts. Exterminate this nest of rebels from the very roots in order to free those unfortunate districts of evil doers who should be exterminated radically by material force of the government...
Cesar Lopez de Lara is interested in education. He is also Governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. And he has put the two together. First of all, by the exercise of almost arbitrary power, but supported by popular sentiment, he taxed everybody and everything. By this means he built up an educational fund of almost $2,000,000. With this fund he gathered together efficient teachers and employed an American architect to design school buildings, putting an American in full charge of the construction program. This American is to spend up to $1,000,000 for the building...
...Lara Anderson, wife of the former Japanese ambassador has consented to let the club use Japanese friends and other Japanese decorations in her possession for the stage setting. As part of the program, the Japanese girls of Wellesley will sing the national anthem of that country...