Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What most distinguishes the generation who have approached maturity since the debacle of idealism at the end of the War is not their rebellion against the religion and moral code of their parents, but their disillusionment with their own rebellion. It is common for young men and women to rebel, but that they should rebel sadly and with out faith in their own rebellion, that they should distrust the new freedom no less than the old certainties-that is something of a novelty...
...operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains along the U. S. border. Without the need of striking a final blow, bull-necked General and War Minister...
Meanwhile the Mexican revolution (TIME, March 11 et seq.) was rapidly petering out. The diminished rebel army under General José Gonzalo Escobar retained control of only one state, Sonora. Federal General Juan Andreu Almazan was collecting an army of 10,000 men to complete the mopping...
There were several young Americans in the rebel air forces in Mexico last week. Most were fighting for money. One said he was fighting for love...
...York was the love-fighter. He is redhaired, freckled, and as Irish as boiled potatoes. Contrary to all romantic tradition Philip ("Red") Mohan comes not from the Lower East but the Upper West Side. Since "Red" Mohan flew a rattling "Jenny" plane from Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening, but Amorous "Red" Mohan...