Word: vera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin-American policy. The U. S. rules all but six Latin-American Republics "by bullets and bankers," the U. S. "dragooned" Mexico for U. S. oil interests, said Mr. Villard. "The blood of the 3,000 Haytians slain by our American marines, and of the 400 dead in Vera Cruz, mostly women and children, dishonors our good name, especially when involved with so sordid a business as debt collection...
Last week, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared at the village of Tres Bocas in the province of Vera Cruz. Daily her image appeared, at 8 a. m. and at noon, on the stump of a large tree in a cornfield. It would speak only to a native girl, aged nine, asking that a Church be built on the site of the tree stump...
Mexico. From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto. It was said that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was virtually covered with the insects. Although the Department of Agriculture was busy fighting the plague by issuing instructions to farmers, who waged an energetic war upon the hoppers, the latter were reported to be getting the better of the encounters...
Tonight in the Club Room of Harvard Union the Classical Club will hold a meeting at 8.00. The seventh reading in Lucian; Vera Historia (Jerram's Edition), Book F, pp. 7 24 will be held...
Citlaltepetl (Mountain of the Star), a volcano 18,000 feet high and situated near Orizaba in the State of Vera Cruz, belched forth showers of sulphur, filling the air and covering the ground for miles around. Snow completely disappeared from the summit, its place being taken by a cloud of sulphurous gas. "The nearby dwellers feared an eruption...