Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bombay the Viceregal telegram was publicly called "insulting" by President Vallabhai Patel of the Gandhite Indian National Congress. Other Gandhites shouted: "This means war!" Squatting in his little tent pitched atop a Bombay tenement house, the Mahatma meditated half the night. Then loyal followers heard the scratch, scratch of his pen as he wrote to the Viceroy...
...efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench but a loyal devotee, observes his quandary, thinks to solve it. by taking poison. Poison fails to kill her. The last reel shows Clive Brook at home again, solemnly celebrating Christmas with his wife and children. Adapted from Ernest Pascal's novel and play The Marriage Bed, the picture adds...
...effect China was left without a Government, for the more prominent members of General Chiang's cabinet resigned with him. Cantonese suspected a trap, feared that on the arrival of their leaders to take over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
...week. There were no obscure causes. The government of President Arturo Araujo, in its anxiety to economize,* had simply forgotten to pay the army officers' salaries for three months. Chief of Salvadorean Police was President Araujo's brother-in-law. The police were paid. The police remained loyal...
...revolution, tumbled out of bed to return the fire, but soon a messenger broke through with the big news. Then El Sapote too blazed away at the Palace. Policemen with their pay in their pockets bravely tried to defend the chief of state, as did a few loyal troops. Whether it was true or not, a rumor circulated that Finance Minister Francisco Jose Espinosa had something to do with the hold-up in the officers' pay. Finance Minister Espinosa was promptly killed...