Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Red had won spectacularly, but twice as sensational was the win of Brown. In the last Reichstag there was a "joke party" of twelve deputies, headed by Austrian-born Herr Adolf Hitler, crony of General Erich von Ludendorv with whom he spilled Bavarian blood in 1923 trying to stage a...
As every sensible Italian knows, scheming Yankees provoked and probably financed the Argentine revolution-such last week was the "angle" taken by Fascist editors.
Someone yelled "Counter revolution!" In a half-second the marching revolutionary troops sprang into action. Unlimbering their guns they raked the wedding fiesta, then, loyal to Provisional President Uriburu ("Idol of the Army"), they dashed for the nearby Plaza de Mayo (Government Square), eager to shoot up counter-revolutionaries who...
Buenos Aires was Bedlam. But steadily, methodically, hour after hour General Uriburu was bringing fresh troops from suburban garrisons into the Capital. With masterly skill he organized calm, drove the Irigoyenist shotgun-toters off the streets, proved that counter revolution worthy of the name had never existed, made himself highly...
Stronger than most other South American governments is that of President Carlos Ibanez, a dictator so fearless of revolution in his bailiwick that he chose last week to tamper with the drinking habits of Chileans, potent topers.