Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...
...doctor who first observed this patient was Neuropsychiatrist John Daniel O'Brien of Canton's Mercy Hospital. Dr. O'Brien kept track of her after the operation, reported her case last week in the American Medical Association's Journal...
Next morning in Ohio the Landon special stopped at Lima, Ada, Bucyrus, Crestline, Mansfield (which the Republican nominee did not forget "was the home of John Sherman," sponsor of the Anti-trust Law), and Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington...
Chinese censorship will rigidly suppress the facts and Chinese consuls abroad will loudly protest rumors, but what Canton, Shanghai and Nanking were saying last week boiled down to this: 1) General Chen took "silver bullets" from the Japanese and bought a good many lead bullets as a gesture to bring himself seriously to the notice of Nanking. 2) He then accepted "silver bullets" not to fight Nanking, which considered this a good investment as it thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken...
...Soong, in addition to being General Manager of the China Development Finance Corp., which looms as a nation-wide enterprise under Generalissimo Chiang's powerful protection, is Managing Director of the great Manufacturers Bank of China, one of whose most important branches is in teeming Canton. Thither T. L. Soong arranged to go last week as "Financial Commissioner" with a great retinue of Chinese bankers, including directors of the country's three government banks...