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...subsequently " destroyed the conditions for an honest plebiscite by artificially changing the voting population." To permit a plebiscite to be held would be, in Peruvian eyes, to "transform the Treaty [Treaty of Ancon] providing for temporary administration into a unilateral annexation; it would in time of peace constitute a conquest without precedent; it would be a shameful and dishonest conquest because it would have been done by deception and fraud." The history of the Tacna-Arica dispute starts from the peace settlement of the Chile-Peruvian...
...story told by The Fourth Estate was that the Chevrolet Motor Co. offered to pay for nine pages of advertising in the Times, if the Times would publish a 16-page supplement composed as follows: Six pages of "reading matter" on the History of Transportation and The Conquest of Times prepared by the Chevrolet Co.; nine pages of Chevrolet advertisements; one page of advertisement to be sold to another advertiser by the Times...
Berthellyn Cup. Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Pittsburgh, formerly national and international champion, whose husband (Jack V. Hurd, steel man) named Golf corespondent in his divorce suit (TiME, Aug. 6), had a successful conquest on the Huntingdon Valley links and journeyed home to enjoy the Berthellyn (invitation tournament) Cup for another year. The qualifying round Mrs. Hurd also captured, with 80 record-breaking strokes...
...CONQUERED-Naomi Mitchison-;Harcourt ($2.00). Meromic, " The Pride of-the Venetii," young Prince of Ancient Gaul, came to manhood just at the time of Caesar's conquest. His tribe crushed, his father killed, his sister driven to suicide, he was sold as a slave and sent to Rome. He was rescued from torture by Titus Barrus, young Roman aristocrat and Lieutenant of Caesar. A friendship as strange as it was deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last...
...lecture system at Princeton several years ago, when a group of young Princeton professors, led by Woodrow Wilson, succeeded in inaugurating the lecture system in the college against the wishes of the trustees and the reactionary members of the Faculty, Professor Perry gave an example of the conquest of the new methods of instruction over...