Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps if peace had not been made with Chile, the Peruvian revolution (TIME, Sept. 1) would have not occurred. Officers of the Peruvian army, having for the first time in their lives no foreign foe to worry about, staged a coup and deposed President Augusto Bernardino Leguia, famed "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
...Majesty, after deliberating off & on for 22 years, finally handed down his decision as arbiter between France and Mexico in the forgotten matter of minute Clipperton Island, 700 miles off the Mexican shore, annexed by France in 1857, seized by Mexican Dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1897. Last week the bantam King gave Clipperton Island finally to France...
...there is the University squad composed of 24 men at the present time, most of whom have had at least one year's experience in tournaments, either in the University matches at Harvard or at other colleges. The men are evenly divided by weight into all classes except the bantam and heavy weight classes where more men are needed...
Definite prices have not yet been decided upon. Austin entered its first U. S. show with a new bantam model, a roadster priced...
...show was limited to work by members and associate members of the Academy. Nobody objected. Critics looked at 391 works of art, all by Academicians, found praiseworthy a canvas by Way man Adams, some prints by Albert Sterner, John Taylor Arms, Gifford Seal, and a sculpture of bantam cocks by Mahonri Mackintosh Young...