Word: lopez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honduran incident, which excited much comment owing to the previous American occupation of Haiti, was caused by the fighting in Tegucigalpa when General Juan Angelo Arias and General Francisco Bueso- who seized dictatorial powers on the death of former President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez-were driven from the capital by rebels led by Generals Tiburcio Carias and Gregorio Ferrera...
Russian Alekhine defeated British Yates whose Ruy Lopez failed...
Died. General Rafael Lopez Gutierrez, onetime President of Honduras and since Feb. 1 (when his presidential term expired) dictator of that country; of natural causes...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "The Municipal Council of Guaymallein, town in Argentina, voted on the name for a new street. Five of the City Fathers thought the thoroughfare should be called Vicente Lopez, in honor of the author of the Argentine national anthem. Five others voted for Luis Angel Firpo. The tie necessitated the casting of the decisive ballot by the President of the Council, with the result that the street will henceforth be known as Calle Luis Angel Firpo. When some of the Councillors later took the President to task for voting for me instead of the patriot...
...literal translation of the play by the same name, this picture offers considerable spellbinding. Holbrook Blinn is Bandit Pancho Lopez; Enid Bennett is the tiny, timid wife. The locale is the open spaces...