Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intense industry may be a novelty to Don Niceto, but government office is not. As a loyal Monarchist for years, he served as a deputy in the Cortes and as Undersecretary of the Interior. He was a member of two Cabinets: Minister of Public Works (1917-18), Minister of War (1922-23). Said Primo de Rivera before his coup d'etat...
...outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America?civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports to take off U. S. refugees...
...Spot. Few large Chinese cities have remained long in Red hands, even on the sore spot. Troops loyal to President Chiang Kai-shek police it, operating from Hankow, with somewhat less success than U. S. Marines have had in Nicaragua...
...great tobacco combine, when dashing young Pierre Lorillard left a director's meeting to join a group of fun-loving friends, James Buchanan Duke said quietly: "I think I'll have to buy me some friends sometime." But like all great tycoons, he could surround himself with able, loyal subordinates. For his board of trustees he chose 15 men he knew well, all Southerners but one. Board president and largest in calibre is George Garland Allen, president of Duke Power Co., vice board-chairman of British-American Tobacco Co. Treasurer is W. C. Parker, long a member of Duke Power...
...Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty's loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations...