Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dole is perhaps the richest resident of Hawaii and its most ardent publicist. Another famed Dole, the late Sanford Ballard (TIME, June 21, 1926), was responsible for stirring up the revolution which ousted Queen Liliuokalani, was the first and only President of Hawaii (1894-1900), was a leader in getting the U. S. to annex the islands...
...From Secretary Wilbur, last fortnight, President Coolidge heard that Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that...
...recently fallen cabinet of Serb Velia Vukichevich. The cabinet was obliged to resign by the titanic scandal which ensued when a deputy of the government party shot two Croatian deputies dead on the floor of the Skupshtina (parliament) and wounded three other Croats, including famed Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croatian party (TIME, July...
...Leader Sergio Osmena of the Philippine Senate, long an agitator for Island independence and an old-time opponent of "foreign" capital in the Philippines, applauded the Stimson document; said that the law changes suggested should not be difficult to effect. This was good news to such outreaching U. S. interests as the Firestones of Ohio (rubber) and doubtless Surveyor Hammond's Electric Bond & Share...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...