Word: cantonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of Railways Sun Fo announced last week that contracts have been signed, providing for the remodeling and enlargement of Nanking and the harbor of Canton by two New Yorkers, an architect and an engineer...
Seaport Engineer Ernest P. Goodrich will so enlarge the harbor of Canton and deepen its connection with the sea that eventually the transshipment of goods at the British seaport of Hongkong, nearby, will be eliminated. Thus a potent source of revenue will be wrested from Britons in China...
...Yatsen, great and pure apostle of the Chinese Democracy that is yet to be. After winning Dr. Sun's confidence by brilliant service in the field, Chiang became his private secretary and served devotedly through all the vicissitudes of the South China Republic, founded by Dr. Sun at Canton. When the Great Leader died in 1925, Disciple Chiang Kai-shek had just completed an arrangement with the Russian Soviet Government whereby millions of rubles were furnished to equip the Nationalist Army in Canton and launch it upon a northward conquest of all China...
...Emile Loubet, President of the French Republic, 1899-1906; Edward P. Weston, long distance walker, now witless ; Gen. Valeriano Weyler, Spanish commander in Cuba in war of 1898; David A. Boody, onetime Mayor of Brooklyn, financier; Dr. Alpheus Baker Hervey, onetime (1888-94) president of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., whom Owen D. Young and other reverent business men honored a fortnight ago with a celebration...
...Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from Dallas, Texas, to China, for a purse of $50,000 offered by Col. W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic...