Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucky Juan" No. 1. Of formal warfare there was little or none in Brazil last week. The city and state of Rio de Janeiro were calm. Government troops, advancing directly inland more than 150 miles, cowed numerous rebel elements in the state Minas Geraes...
Directly south of and adjoining Rio de Janeiro is the rich coffee state of Sao Paulo, and against this region rebel columns from the three states still further south advanced last week. As commander-in-chief of the rebels there emerged General "Lucky Juan" Alberto Barros, veteran of several Brazilian rumpuses...
...rebel loomed one Juarez Tavora. He began the week a captain, ended it a general. Operating in the northern rebel sector?that is, north of Rio de Janeiro?this young daredevil was credited with seizing the state governments of Parahyba and Pernambuco, whence he advanced south upon the huge state of Bahia which adjoins Minas Geraes. Like a dashing Phil Sheridan the "General" moved his army with such vigorous celerity that he was several times reported to be in several places at once...
...Plan. From the "dizzy heights" of Simla a brief cable pictured Viceroy Lord Irwin as "laboring night and day" to whip together "a proposal alternative to the report of the Simon Commission [TIME, June 30 et ante] and much more liberal." This means that the Viceroy himself is a rebel against the Simon Report, which nearly all Indians consider too reactionary and which a probable plurality of Englishmen (including all the Conservatives) hold to be too liberal...
...Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House of Joy, The Rebel Generation...