Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some other Turner title pages which have promised exciting but non-existent volumes: BELLE BOYD, THE REBEL SPY, First Gun in the World War of Words; MICROTHILOLOGY, A Wee-weeana Dictionary; CONGRESSIONAL DICTIONARY. Words, Phrases and Veiled Illusions for Use in Effective Lobbying together with Methods of Approach and Purveyance for Spontaneous Legislation...
...months ago General Anastasio Somoza was just another rebel; last week he was elected President of Nicaragua...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
General Somoza, who will enter office on Jan. 1, obtained 99% of the votes cast. Ex-President Sacasa learned of the former rebel's crashing triumph as he relaxed in Manhattan...
...pleasant man in Washington, with a pleasant smile," remarked Virginia's Carter Glass at a dinner of the Southern Society of New York in Manhattan last week, "once called me an unreconstructed rebel." The pleasant man, said Senator Glass, dropping the cloak of implication, was Franklin Roosevelt. Wrapping the light garment about him once more, the peppery little old Democrat then served notice that his campaign truce with the New Deal was over by enlarging as follows on an anecdote of a famed Confederate general: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used...