Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three months of marching and countermarching and a half-dozen major battles. Brazil's civil war ("bloodiest in South American History") ended last week. Rich, coffee-growing Sao Paulo lost its attempt to regain control of the Federal Government. General Bertholdo Klinger, No. 1 rebel, onetime chief of Rio de Janeiro police, laid down his arms. Colonel Herculaneo Carvalho headed a temporary military government for Sao Paulo state. No accurate casualty lists were published on either side. For Brazil as a whole the civil war has had one beneficial result: The blockade of the port of Santos boosted...
...smalltown doctor in the hilly South of France. Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession. He had no sound musical grounding. Not until he was sent to Paris, set to dissecting corpses did he rebel and on his own account go after the rudiments of music which most musicians learn as children. For years Berlioz scraped along on next to no money. He had a few pupils to whom he taught singing, flute, guitar. He sang evenings in the chorus of a second-class theatre...
Berthold Klinger, a onetime German general, is supposed to be the military brains of the revolting Paulistas. Federal troops, who had recaptured about one-tenth of the revolting state last week, scored a spectacular but indecisive coup by capturing Senhor Borges de Medeiros, a leading rebel and once, for 20 years, president of Rio Grande...
...keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested filibusters (never lost a case). Occasionally he made a voyage himself, but his usefulness was greater on shore. Raising money for the rebel Cubans was part of his job. Biggest single contribution ($30,000) he got from Tammany's Boss Croker. Propaganda was another part. He admits that Hearst and the yellow press were a great help in spreading Spanish atrocity stories, rousing U. S. sympathies for the revolting Cubans. The Junta's agents...
Meanwhile in Madrid a crowd of mutinous soldiers set out from their barracks for the post office and war office. When they neared the war office from all sides appeared truckloads of police, shooting as they came. The rebel lines wavered, broke. The soldiers ran for cover, shooting as they ran. Seven fell. Police took 200 prisoners, including eight men found in a room near the war office where they said they had met to play poker. A doctor, passing in a taxicab, was drilled through the head. Within four hours the uprising was over, Madrid was quiet under martial...