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Word: severo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials said the trouble all started with a sassy kitchen hand named Severe Moreno. Y employes blamed Stewardess Dolores Uranga and Secretary Alberto Salinas Carranza, technical adviser to Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors, clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Y Out of Mexico? | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island. Dictator Uriburu ordered the new Congress convoked Jan. 20, promised to return Argentina to constitutional government within 30 days. Leaders of the insurrection were announced as General Severo Toranzo, Lieut.-Colonel Gregorio Pomar and Jose Abalos, who was President Irigoyen's minister of public works. All were in Uruguay fortnight ago. After the Kennedy Brothers' revolt collapsed. General Toranzo and Colonel Pomar were located in Uruguayana, Brazil. They never even got to Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Three Wild Irishmen | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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