Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arsene-Henry's misfortunes began immediately after France's request for armistice. The Japanese Army spokesman in Canton said that if French Indo-China refused to "reconsider herself" on the matter of sending munitions by rail into China, the Imperial Army would "undertake to wean Indo-China away from hostility to Japan." M. Arsene-Henry, who understood the meaning of that "wean," who also well appreciates the classical Japanese conceptions of fact and fiction, flatly denied that any arms were going from French Indo-China into China (although two-thirds of China's war supplies have gone...
...announced granting Pan Am a new run across the Pacific: from San Francisco (via Los Angeles) 6,540 miles to Auckland, New Zealand, with stops at Honolulu, Canton Island and Noumea in New Caledonia. Pan Am began surveying the New Zealand run in 1935, in 1938 was ready to start mail and express service...
...pilot, weather-beaten Ed Musick, dumped gasoline for a forced landing, burned up his Samoan Clipper with all hands (no passengers were carried). To resume service Pan Am had to apply for a new certificate, in the meantime (last August) made another exploration run via Canton Island and Noumea with a new Boeing 314 flying boat...
...patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating...
After art study in Munich, he went back to Canton, Ohio, in time to help tootle Townsman William McKinley into the White House and to learn "the rule of never voting for a Presidential candidate who had the slightest chance of election." In 1903 he became editor of his first paper, The Labor World, organ of the Brewery Workers Union. As editor he went to New Orleans for the bitter jurisdictional strike of 1903 that nearly ruined both breweries and workers in that city. His narrative of the strike is a small masterpiece of labor history...