Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when a poll was taken among Disciples of Christ (Campbellite) ministers as to the outstanding ones among them, Burris Jenkins was well up in the first ten. A denominational rebel like Alexander Campbell who broke away from the Seceder Presbyterian Church in Western Pennsylvania a century ago, he held an Indianapolis pastorate at 27, became president of that city's University in 1899 and of pious Kentucky University two years later. Not until he took his Kansas City pastorate in 1907 was Dr. Jenkins completely free and happy. A Y. M. C. A. worker and War correspondent...
...were automatically to be classed as "Liberals." This is not true, for there are thousands of the approximately 10,000 ministers of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., who are true to every doctrine mentioned, i. e., Virgin Birth. Inspiration of the Scriptures, etc.. who nevertheless condemn the rebel Westminster...
Augusto Cesar Sandino walked slowly through the white portico of Nicaragua's Presidential Palace and stepped into his car. His stomach was warm with the fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they were sure of his skill in mountain fastnesses. For five years they sought to capture him, bombing him from airplanes, attempting to storm his retreats. The rebel chieftain who eluded five thousand Marines, who rejoiced when American intervention was withdrawn, now lies dead at the hands of assassins, killed not as a soldier but as the leader of a peaceful agricultural community...