Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States and Mexico first intervened jointly, in Central America, in 1906 stated Professor Haring. "Our purpose was to re-establish peace between Guatemala and Salvador. In 1907 Nicaragua and Honduras went to war and the United States and Mexico again mediated, the countries agreeing to submit future disputes to the arbitration of the mediating powers. This was followed by the Washington treaties of 1907. We were trying to establish peace in Central America...
...relation of this government to the Nicaraguan situation, and its policy in the existing emergency, are determined by the facts which I have described. ... I am sure it is not the desire of the United States to intervene in the internal affairs of Nicaragua or of any other Central American republic...
Marvels. The ancient Hindu civilization which gave way to Islam in the 15th Century left behind it a wealth of temples and antiquities scarcely inferior in interest to any similar remains whatever. Though the great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible...
Record woman's insurance policy ($3,250,000) has been written in Cincinnati for Mrs. Henry C. Yeiser Jr., daughter of the late Julius Fleischmann. It is as trust fund to insure the fortune inherited from her father. Union Central Life Insurance Co. was underwriter; will let out major portion to twelve other companies...
...Spiritual Bridge" was the term used for the new Casa de las Espanas, Inc. (home of the Spanish-speaking peoples) created by the purchase of Grand Central Palace and the Park-Lexington Building. Manhattan. Spanish and American businessmen backers are headed by Col. Thomas H. Birch, onetime Minister to Portugal and President of the Trust Co. of North America. Consulates, schools, commercial exhibits, offices and a bank are to be located on the property...