Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astonishing and paradoxical were the successes of Obregon may be judged from three facts: 1) He won recognition for his Government from President Harding; 2) He "borrowed" $5,000,000 from. Edward L. Doheny; 3) He was saved from being ousted by a revolt led by General Adolfo de La Huerta, when President Calvin Coolidge declared an embargo on arms destined for Huerta, then permitted Obregon and Calles...
...Lando, lived luxuriously in Rome, and published, out of boredom, a socialist paper which sympathized from safe distance with laborers in Sicily. An enthusiastic delegation of these laborers, representing half-baked unions called fasci, nevertheless persuaded Lando, against his better cynical judgment, to come to Sicily and co-ordinate revolt...
...Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. His method of transferring from the defunct Farm Revolt to the triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem...
Buyers and borrowers of best sellers were mightily of a twitter, last week, at news of new exploits by the author of Revolt in the Desert, famed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. He, with a modesty not inferior to Lindbergh's, has rejected all the honors and decorations which Britons sought to heap upon him in reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived...
...special symbol was assigned to "the indispensable word wangle" in the diplomatic code of the British Foreign Office, by imperative request of Colonel T. E. (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence (See Yemen...