Word: vera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin-faced man in dusty clothes stood last week in a courtyard near Vera Cruz. He blinked nervously before a group of photographers and then turned to a file of brown-skinned soldiers...
...Vera Cruz Falls. The great oil port of Mexico was captured, early in the week, and then lost to federal troops by General Jesus Maria Aguirre, who fled toward Yucatan. At Pennsylvania Military Academy, Chester, Pa., U. S. A., Cadet Leon Aguirre, doughty general's son, said: "Father can take care of himself. He is an experienced campaigner...
...federal army which took Vera Cruz ?and appeared to have squelched the revolution south of Mexico City?was commanded by General Juan Andreu. now chief of staff to General Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...President moved against the revolutionaries by asking onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28) to emerge from his civilian retirement and defend the state as Minister of War. Responding instantly, General Calles ordered swift mobilization, scoffed at reports that six states had joined Sonora and Vera Cruz in revolt clapped on an iron censorship...
...hesitant attitude of the armed forces of the Republic-on which everything depended-was quaintly shown when ships of the Mexican fleet off Vera Cruz fired at the revolutionaries in the city a few shots which must have been blanks, since they did no damage. Thus should the government win, the fleet would have "fired" in its defense, and, should the revolution triumph, Mexico's swarthy sea-dogs would have deserved well...