Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present that doughty one-armed fighter is the commanding General of the 30,000 troops being placed in the field by President Calles (TIME, Oct. 4) to suppress and exterminate the Yaqui Indians, a group of tribes continuously rebellious against the succeeding governments of Mexico since the Spanish conquest...
...supremacy in Shanghai seemed threatened. The armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed a proposal that the two Changs should divide China between themselves...
...HUMAN ADVENTURE (2 vols.): THE CONQUEST OF CIVILIZATION-James Henry Breasted; THE ORDEAL OF CIVILIZATION - James Harvey Robinson-Harper ($10 or $5 each). Scholar-scientists on Man's history since the ooze...
...Conquest of Mexico," Professor Haring, Harvard 2, History...
President Calles announced that an army well equipped with armored cars, airplanes and poisoned gas would be sent to discipline and suppress the rebellious Yaqui who have been more or less continually in foment since the conquest of Mexico by Spain...