Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolsheviki confiscated oil fields, refineries, machinery, stocks, assets and even the "trinkets and jewelry belonging to employes." Added he: " "Politically, this is called confiscation; practically, all these objects were stolen, not by representatives of the people, but by a gang who, by controlling the army, had usurped the power to do anything which would not have been tolerated otherwise...
...merely noted that Sir Austen "is a charming host and a clever politician, possessing a truly amazing insight into international affairs. ... I am fast becoming of the opinion that Spain would be better off without her interests there (Morocco) . . . but it is always dangerous to relinquish possessions to another power unless some satisfactory compromise can be arranged. It is that that Sir Austen may arrange...
...been ordered by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, acting for the Carnegie Endowment, one of the chief contributors to the U. S. fund for the reconstruction of the Library. But Dr. Butler denied that he had ordered the work to stop, pointed out that he had no power so to order...
...opposition candidates and many supporting generals seemed to hold promise of a complete annihilation of the opposition to the candidacy of General Alvaro Obregon, one-armed, onetime President of Mexico, whom the Calles administration is tacitly supporting, just as the Obregon administration, when it was in power, tacitly supported President Elias Plutarco Calles. Then as now there was a revolution; then led by General Adolfo de la Huerta, at present an exile in the U. S.; now led by Generals Arnulfo Gomez and, until his execution, Francisco Serrano...
...attempted revolution was the opposition of Generals Serrano and Gomez to the re-election of General Obregon, they being the only candidates standing against Obregon. The fundamental cause of the revolt may be attributed to the almost traditional resort to arms of Mexican aspirants to the presidential power, as witness a long line of successful and unsuccessful revolutions...