Word: lopez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scattered Mexican garrisons had been easy to dispose of, but in February 1836, Mexico's Dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna crossed the Rio Grande with an army of 6,000, a threat of death to every American in Texas. Against him, in the Alamo mission at San Antonio, Col. William Travis and Col. James Bowie stood with 184 men, including Davy Crockett and a dozen buckskin-clad Tennesseans. At tiny Washington on the Brazos River, 160 miles to the northeast, Sam Houston and some 60 citizens were drawing up Texas' declaration of independence. At Goliad, 140 miles...
While the funeral guns were still booming, youthful Vice President Lopez Contreras was appointed acting President to succeed him. His first manifesto ended with a pointed warning...
...defeated Morse (UC), 15-9, 15-7, 14-16, 15-11; Ginsberg (UC) defeated John C. Wood '38 (H), 15-8, 8-15, 18-15, 15-13; Perkins (UC) defeated Carl S. Oakman, Jr. '38 (H), 18-17, 15-12, 18-14; Thomas Sherwin '37 (H) defeated Lopez...
Hotel Ambassador, (51st and Park Ave.) features Vincent Lopez in the new Trianon Room, and a fine cuisine...
...states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly...