Word: ap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference met; and, as a result, President Tsao Kun ordered the cessation of hostilities, dismissed Super-Tuchun Wu from his post of Commander-in-Chief of the Peking forces, ap pointed him Chief Commissioner of the Koko-nor district in Tibet. This appointment was virtually banishment. Rumors then emanated from the Capital stating that the Cabinet had been ar rested. These rumors were, however, unconfirmed...
...message then contained an appeal to the civilized world: "We ap- peal to the League of Nations to put an end to these crimes and to take severe measures against this savagery, which makes humanity and civilization tremble...
Came Samuel Bowles III, the business man, at the beginning of our new era, wherein the primary function of a newspaper is to make money. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 15, 1878, a well-known Springfield citizen ap peared on his front porch, clad in dressing gown and carpet slippers. In his hands were the family tongs. With these he carefully picked up a tainted object which lay before him. Marching around, instead of through, the house, to avoid the possibility of contagion to holy precints, he deposited the object in the garbage can by the kitchen door. With...
...England railroads also show the local tourist slump. Passengers on the B. & M. in June were 10% fewer than for June, 1923; ap parently about the same decrease was experienced on the New Haven...
...greater contrast can be imagined than that between Jim Fiske and G. F. Baker, who now seemingly controls Erie and has for some time been steering the road into more peaceful and prosperous years. Last week the "Van Sweringen se- curities" were active on the Stock Exchange. Rumors abounded. Ap- parently the time is almost here when the astonishing realtors from Cleveland will put together the "Nickel Plate System" as one of this country's greatest railroad mergers. The system will include Nickel Plate, Erie, Clover Leaf, Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio, and the coming consolidation will necessitate...