Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Francisco Bergamin, Spain's Clarence Darrow, argued that his coup had not been a "consummated revolt,'' for which the penalty is death, but a "frustrated rising," punishable with life imprisonment. He smiled when a soldier testified that in ordering him to blow up the Lora del Rio bridge the general had instructed him to "do the least possible damage." When the judges returned a verdict of death General Sanjurjo remarked blandly: "I have been in worse situations...
Bonus. If states paid $50 a month to parents of good heredity when their third child reaches its fifth birthday, and $10 or more a month for each additional child. Such bonuses would give eugenists a powerful economic advocate for their cause. ?Dr. Renato Kehl of Rio de Janeiro. He also advocated high inheritance taxes for families of few children, large reductions for big families...
...Reorganized as junior colleges: Anderson (Anderson. S. C.). Rio Grande (Rio Grande, Ohio). Elmhurst (Elmhurst, Ill.), Lincoln (Lincoln, Ill.), St. Bernard (St. Bernard, Ala.), Northwest Nazarene (Nampa, Idaho), Ellsworth (Iowa Falls, Iowa), Wartburg (Clinton, Iowa), Belmont Abbey (Belmont...
From Madrid two infantry regiments, artillery and bombing planes started for Seville. General Sanjurjo sent twelve soldiers with a trainload of dvnamite to blow up the bridge at Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier...