Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accusations that the Catholic Church as an institution was implicated in the revolt, I cannot answer such a charge in the affirmative...
...paradox of a "beneficial insurrection" is readily explained. The revolt was led openly by several Generals of the Army and Governors of Mexican States (TIME, March 11, et seq.), who had machinated secretly against Plutarco Elias Calles when he was President and later against his staunch friend President Emilio Portes Gil. So highly placed were the insurrectos that until they actually broke out their banners of revolt, nothing could be done to check their plotting. Once they chose to take the field, and lost, their power within the Army and State was broken...
...headlines on the front pages of yesterday's newspapers revealed, such acquiescence was not forthcoming on the part of the leaders of Washington society. After smouldering for several weeks the revolt against the demands of the second executive of the United States has flamed up with the refusal of the wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to give place to the Vice President's sister at social functions...
...authority to President Chiang. Since the wily president had unquestionably "packed" the congress, its actions surprised no one. In Canton yet another military clique, composed of colleagues of General Li, swore vengeance on account of his execution or imprisonment-without knowing which had occurred-moved to join the Wuhan revolt. As Marshal Chiang and his army bore southward upon the rebel areas, the Cantonese colleagues of General Li forgot their indignation and made a neat right-about, in the famed manner of Chinese generals, loudly proclaiming allegiance to President Chiang...
...called Wuhan cities are those centering about Hankow, up river on the mighty Yangtze-kiang, while down river is the Chinese capital of Nanking, against the authority of whose President Chiang Kai-shek (see above) the Wuhan cities are in revolt. Military operations last week amounted to little more than the preliminary convergence of three Nanking Nationalist armies upon Hankow, where the Wuhan generals entrenched themselves and strung barbed wire...