Word: rebellions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mystery. A gruesome echo of a previous rebellion came from Madrid last week. Leader of the Anarchist P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Workers Party) largely responsible for the bloody Barcelona riots of May was one Andres Nin, at that time Counselor of Justice in the independent Catalan Government. When Valencia finally put the riots down, big Poum Nin and dozens of lesser Poums were quietly slipped into jail, then transferred to Madrid...
Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the Straits of Salamis and quietly and unofficially sent ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been...
...Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants...
Birthday. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, U. S. A. retired, 100, oldest man in the Army roll, veteran of the Civil War, Indian wars, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion; in West Roxbury, Mass. On his 98th birthday the House of Representatives congratulated him. On his 99th birthday he received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. On his 100th birthday President Roosevelt wrote to congratulate him "personally as well as officially...
Serekin says world faces new era as result of present generation's rebellion against classic traditions of past...