Word: apparent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early reports that Canton had been captured by the southern rebels appar-ently convinced the "Christian General" that the time had come to step out for himself. He set soldiers to work tearing Up bridges and railroads, concentrated his private army of 150,000 in Honan province, made a statement charging President Chiang with misappropriating government funds, expressed his determination to fight the Nationalist Government...
...brother, Leon Czolgosz, 28, brown-Iiaired, smooth-shaven Polish anarchist, had heard Emma Goldman speak, had been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz...
When quitting the Chancellery ex-Chancellor Stresemann said that he was reminded of ex-Chancellor Cuno's remark when he vacated the building last August: "I am glad to leave this house, where I never spent one happy hour." Appar-ently Herr Stresemann shared this view...