Word: cantonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the young Soviet Union was fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Blücher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Blücher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...
...Soong scion, if he had not learned sound banking and business principles at Harvard, the course of modern Chinese history would have run in a profoundly different rut. In 1922 the Nationalists, who have since conquered all China, were an insignificant group of zealots dominating only the region of Canton. On an income from local taxes of only one million dollars per month they could not finance a China-conquering expedition. Two years later young T. V. Soong was called to the Nationalist Finance Ministry...
Without increasing taxes Banker Soong magically increased the Canton tax yield from one to ten million dollars per month. He has said that he did it by cutting down graft, by rigid Harvard budgeting. On ten million dollars per month the Nationalists launched their successful war of conquest, financed additionally for a time by grants from Soviet Russia, a state with which they soon quarreled, are still quarreling...
Damn! The other night Newspaperman James Hoeck, until recently of Shanghai, Canton, Peking; Richard Kerley, until recently of Memphis, and F. von Falkenberg, until recently of Palm Beach, Pensacola, Tallahassee-all sitting in the back room of a heimgemacht establishment joyfully guzzling brew, discussing Einstein, Nietzsche, Women, Words, TIME...
While Owner Ford was profitably retiring from his excursion into railroad circles, those circles were profoundly agitated by the probability that the Pennsylvania was behind the D. T. & I. purchase. Reasonable seemed this conclusion. Last month was purchased Canton, Baltimore's bustling freight and industrial suburb, by a similarly unnamed principal which later proved to be the Pennsylvania (TIME, June 24). Furthermore, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton was one of the roads included in the Baltimore & Ohio's plan for a greater and longer B. & O. (TIME, March 4). Just as the Canton purchase was virtually a slice carved...