Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shootings in the chamber were not the only sad incidents in Mexico last week. As secretly as possible trainloads of Federal troops were hustled north to Sonora. Rumors persisted along the border that seven separate rebel armies were drilling in the dusty mountains, preparing to overthrow Governor Ramon Ramos, a stanch Calles adherent...
Five thousand strong, a hopeful delegation of Croat peasants meanwhile cheered sexagenarian Croat Leader Vecheslav Wilder who cried: "We have endured seven lean years, given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel...
...Indians are Andes highlanders who know how to handle llamas, have never won a war. They work in Simon Patino's tin mines, producing one-quarter of the world's tin, avoid the flooded bottomlands of eastern Bolivia and, 3,000,000 strong, have sense enough to rebel periodically against their 250,000 white overlords...
...Tactics of Tyranny" Up the first day of the Assembly jumped a Philadelphia commissioner to challenge the seating of three Machenite commissioners, all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find...
...their minds, he knew, was: would Fundamentalist McComb be loyal to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions? Or was he mixed up in that Independent Board which has caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally said that he had never given a penny to the rebel board, but: ''I must refuse to bind myself unconditionally to any of the boards of the Church. I feel that my loyalty is due to Jesus Christ and to Him alone. I will support those agencies which honor Him and which are pleasing to Him and His glory...