Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent Italo -Yugo -Slavian Treaty (TiME, Feb. 4), having been ratified by the Yugo-Slavian Skupshina, the port and city of Fiume and the territory thereunto attached came legally under the Italian tricolor when King Vittorio Emanuele signed the Italian ratification passed by the Council of Ministers...
...tried to bring about a peaceful settlement. He approved the ultimatum of the Shipping Board to the longshoremen, was tried by the union for favoring the shipowners-and was acquitted. About the time that the strike was settled he declared: "If everyone of the 40,000 longshoremen in the port of New York vote to remain out on strike, I will still refuse to endorse their action in any manner...
Memel. Norman H. Davis, U. S. Under Secretary of State in the Wilson Administration, now head of a League commission to untangle the 'difficulties which have arisen over the port of Memel, arrived at Memel with the members of the commission to study the problem on the spot. Both Lithuania and Poland have claims to the port, which is an important sea outlet to both nations...
Meanwhile, the Federal advance on the port of Vera Cruz was held up by the constant railway repairs made necessary by the rebels. After a lapse of seven days, however, the post was formally entered by the victorious troops and the lines of communication between Mexico City and the coast were thus solidly in the hands of President Obregon...
Under pressure from the advancing Federal troops, General Adolfo de la Huerta, rebel generalissimo, ordered the evacuation of his stronghold and "capital," the port of Vera Cruz. General de la Huerta declared that he had not ordered the evacuation compulsorily, but voluntarily, "in order to liberate for active service in the field the several thousand troops defending the railways approaching the port, which was almost valueless as a base of operation." The rebel leader was later reported to have established a "capital" or base at Tuxpam in the State of Vera Cruz. Another report gave the place as Merida, capital...