Word: weyler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practicing for Weyler Sir: Your report on General Weyler's sickness (TIME April 14) was, of course, excellent, iou missed', however, one thing which it seems to me could be sufficient to throw the choleric old (92 not 91, years old) general into a fit ot rage that might carry him to -his grave, although that "double pneumonia, with some complications" could do him nothing to pay attention to. When Primo de Rivera's body was carried to Spain, just a few days after Weyler found him self sound and hale again, the people of old Madrid...
...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...