Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down to conquer the region. Menahem paid Pul $1,940,000 to go away peacefully. Menahem got the money by exacting $32.30 from each of "all the mighty men of wealth" in Israel. But shortly after, Shalmaneser, Pul's successor, descended upon the kingdom, removed the idolatrous Israelites, made them the Ten Lost...
Chiang is as much a Conqueror as was Constantine I (288-337 A.D.), the Roman general who espoused Christianity when convinced that by the Sign of the Cross he would conquer, and who did conquer Rome itself, became emperor. Two years ago, when still a Buddhist, General Chiang, with his Christian wife praying for him, conquered all of China proper (TIME, June 21, 1928 et ante). He has just been through a long summer of battles to consolidate his conquest. Last week there was no apparent reason, except sincere conviction, why the president should have gone to his mother...
...efficacy of prayer, although a temperate drinker. He pointed out to his parish the inadvisability of being too demanding in one's supplications to the Lord. He cites an instance when a colonial army went into Canada secure behind the prayers of the faithful, who prayed not to conquer the enemy, but merely that their army should not be annihilated by the wiles of the French...
...many European countries, the Ministry of Interior supervises the elections, and Austria will go to the polls on Nov. 9. Within two days after his appointment, Minister of Interior Prince von Starhemberg manifestoed as follows to his Heim wehr: "Today we stand in the Government, tomorrow we must conquer Parliament, not to rest at ease in an armchair but to build up a new State, a Heimwehr State, on the ruins of the old Parliament of parties. Comrades, close your ranks for the Heimwehr attack...
...Russia, having failed to conquer the world by propaganda, now seeks to achieve the goal of a world-wide Bolshevik state through a program of economic ruin. . . . Moscow has embarked on a program that means the enslavement of every Russian man and woman. ... No American industry could compete against such a menace. . . . We are facing what amounts to a declaration...