Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As everyone knows, a succession of revolts has rent and impoverished Portugal since the "original revolution" of October 5, 1910, resulted in the overthrow of King Manuel II and the setting up of a Republic. General da Costa seized the Government from Dictator-Commander Cabecadas who had overthrown President Machada...
The whole apparatus of Tsarol industry, he declared, is being utilized to the limit without sufficiently rapid replacement of worn out machinery, is being used up. The influx of half a million untrained workers into the factories has further slowed production, greatly lowered the pre-Revolution standard of production per...
Married. Ethel and Mary Howe, descendants of General Howe, British commander during the American Revolution; to Lieutenants R. C. Smith and James Van Home, graduates of this year's class at West Point.
The embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph...
At 19 he was already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance...