Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply I inform you that Mexico has been absent from your high organization due to causes apart from any lack of the spirit of cooperation and immediately accepts the reparation you offer.* She therefore accepts membership in the League on the terms you announce, and offers a loyal spirit of friendship...
Forty years ago the Chilean navy won a revolution. Last week's mutineers did not give up. The naval base at Talcahuano joined the revolt. So did the sailors and cadets of the Naval Training School at Valparaiso. Fortunately for President Trucco the army stayed loyal. Within a couple of hours the Valparaiso cadets had surrendered and regiments were moving down the coast against Talcahuano...
...slugs him, heaves him into the street. The car runs over him, does not kill him; but he loses his right arm. Old friends rescue him, take him to a hospital, stand by till he is on his feet again. The old friends are naturally crooks but they are loyal, sympathize with his plight, respect his determination. They get him another girl, little Mieze, fresh from the streets. Biberkopf becomes her pimp. They live in comparative comfort, surprise themselves by falling in love with each other. Then Reinhold comes on the scene again...
...days later two long lines of coffins passed through the streets of Lisbon. In the nine hours of fighting 80 people had lost their lives, 300 were wounded. Behind the flag-draped coffins of the loyal soldiers walked spry, spare General Carmona, his jaw clenched, his head up. Government officials announced that two leaders of the revolt, Major Sarmento de Beires (who flew to Brazil in 1927) and Col. Diaz Antunes will not face a firing squad but will be sent to disintegrate in swampy, fever-ridden Portuguese West Africa...
...wage scale-$7 per day. She set up company welfare agencies. She created a cooperative form of management. She got rid of the thousands of dollars worth of machine guns, ammunition and barbed wire the company kept on hand for labor disturbances. She won the loyal affection of her workers, all of whom know her by sight, and the anxious distrust of her colleagues in the coal business...