Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcast from Chung-king a nationwide appeal: "All the Chinese people must work for closer cooperation with Russia." United Press reported neutral military attachés in China estimate that about 100 Soviet Red Army officers have now arrived to advise Generalissimo Chiang and his subordinate commanders. The original conquest of China by Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926) was accomplished with the technical assistance of Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about to attempt a Chinese drive to recapture Canton, based...
Another guest lecturer, Professor Frederick H. Cramer of Mount Holyoke College, will speak at 8 o'clock in Laurence Hall tomorrow night on 'The conquest of the Universities by the Emperors of Rome." Dr. Cramer is engaged in a series of lectures under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education...
Premier Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...
...will speak on "The Conquest of the Universities by the Emperors of Rome"; and on Nov. 18, on "Decline and Downfall of the Government controlled Roman School System...
Elena Karam heads the white members of the cast and turns in a creditable performance, although hampered by poor direction and a Swedish accent, possibly derived from too great admiration of Garbo in the Napoleonic film, "Conquest." Alvin Childress heads the Negro cast in the role of a former slave and the father of Miss Karam. His role is very sympathetic and not very exacting, facts which make him the outstanding figure of the drama. Little can be said for the other actors white or Negro, except that they appear clumsy on the stage and give unnatural emphasis to their...