Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbreak of foot and mouth disease...
Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...
Arrested and tried in 1931 as an officer of an illegal organization, he served almost three years in Kingston Penitentiary. After he got out he helped stage the 1935 March of the Unemployed on Ottawa, conducted a training school for Communists, edited the Communist Clarion. At the outbreak of World War II he went underground...
...janitor's arrival stopped the outbreak after 10 minutes...
After Words, Deeds. The plan worked out at Calcutta called for simultaneous revolts in Burma and Malaya. Three months after the outbreak of the Malayan revolt, Indonesia's Communists were to strike. As coordination center for the drive a 26-man Soviet Legation, largest in Southeast Asia, was set up in Bangkok...