Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Just as tempers were rising, one Dr. Soltan Klars, municipal physician, tooted past a group of angry workmen in a new and shiny automobile. That was all that was needed. With howls of rage they sprang on the running board, beat the frightened doctor, set the car afire...
...blood is thicker than gratitude. In the night after Dr. Irigoyen's temporary retirement, General Uriburu secretly joined a group of wealthy and aristocratic brother officers, all bent on revolution, at the Campo de Mayo barracks. By dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...
...tyrant than Dr. Irigoyen ever was. Brazil is saddled with the worst overproduction situation (coffee) in the whole western hemisphere. Chile with her nitrates is apparently quiet in a dictator's iron hand. In any of these countries revolutions might result in the seizure of power by a group determined to resist what so many South Americans call "Yankee Imperialism...
Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood...
Young Comrade Litvinov. The stock control of Lena Goldfields Ltd. is held by a small group of U. S. and British tycoons who maintain the privacy of their identity. Board Chairman of the company in London is Herbert Guedalla, cousin of elegant British essayist-poet-biographer Philip Guedalla. Of the Directors close-lipped Major Frederick Davis Gwynne is easily outstanding. He went to Moscow in 1925 and signed the original terms of the Concession Agreement, a Russian signatory being young Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who has since risen until today he is Foreign Minister of the Soviet State. Last week...