Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deep in the thick jungles of Central America are dozens of splendid stone cities abandoned centuries ago. Of the mysterious race which built them, there remain only a few hundred thousand Indians, ignorant of their glorious past...
Science and history have not yet succeeded in fathoming the secret of the great American civilization that vanished suddenly from Central America, and the mystery of the Mayas remains unsolved. An expedition headed by Dr. H. J. Spinden '06, of the Peabody Museum and the writer Gregory Mason, is now on its way to the Yucatan to explore territory hither to unknown in the hope of finding new clues to the archaeological riddle of the Maya civilization. In this article, reprinted from the New York Times, Mr. Mason describes the problems and hopes of the expedition...
That such unfound archaeological treasure probably exists so near, civilized parts of Central America is due to the long hostility of the independent Indians, who had repelled previous explorers. That hostility has largely disappeared; we are proceeding with confidence on advices that we shall be allowed to penetrate the interior unmolested...
...moments later the voice of Il Duce Benito boomed from the Capitol as he inducted Senator Cremonesi as the first Governor of Rome under the new Fascist law replacing popularly elected mayors throughout Italy with podestas (governors) appointed by the Central Government (TIME...
...first time since 1914 Europe faces the future turns its back upon the tragic accumulation of war antagonisms and ambitions. Once again, European unity as a family of nations is promised eastward to the frontiers of Bolshevik Russia. The disasterous fracture across Central Europe, breaking the Old World in two embattled camps of victor and vanquished, is ended...