Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, in 1519, came Cortez, who stopped in Yucatan only long enough to pick up the shipwrecked priest, Jeronimo de Aguilar, before proceeding along the coast to Vera Cruz, whence he marched inland. The discovery of great wealth in upland Mexico, and later in Peru, turned the attentions of the Spanish conquistadores from Yucatan, where little gold was to be had. The conquest of the hot lowlands, inhabited by the valiant Mayas, was long delayed. The Indians have never given up the struggle for independence and in the eastern part of the Yucatan peninsula, called Quintana Roo, they have retained...
Tongues wagged their fastest. It began to be widely believed that General Pershing had found it utterly impossible to cajole or coerce Chile and Peru into agreeing on the terms of a fair Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Naturally Chile was supposed to concede the final break on account of the "appeal" to President Coolidge, and because of the recent Pershing-baiting tactics of Senor Edwards, the Chilean representative on the Commission (TIME...
...vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General Pershing was not ill, and was backed up by news cables from Arica which described him as enjoying perfectly good health...
...Created by the arbitral award of President Coolidge (TIME, March 16) to administer a plebiscite for the purpose of determining whether the once Peruvian province of Tacna-Arica, now a part of Chile, shall be returned to Peru. The plebiscite, should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru...
...Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition of a colorful and decorative, essentially two-dimensioned background. And against it the elaborate perfection of the actors' costume and make-up? created a Rembrandt effect of warmth and color...