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Word: maximo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Cuba. Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Alarums & Excursions | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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