Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchant and Missionary at Canton" 1807-1843," Professor Hornbeck. Harvard...
Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent...
Professor Roorbach encountered various dangers in the course of his trip. He told of one experience he had with the bandits who infest the waters of the great silk growing region of the delta near Canton. While the silk-cargo boat on which he was a passenger was rounding a curve in the stream, a group of some 30 bandits, armed to the teeth, was seen on the bank. The silk boat was heavily armed against such a contingency, and cleared decks for action. But the bandits had a large sign displayed which read. "We are today only attacking fishing...
Henry H. Timken, president of Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, began to spend virtually a million dollars last week so that Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet...
None the less, Manufacturer Henry H. Timken has been willing to spend a million dollars to give a full test to the doctor's theories. This is no whim of Mr. Timken who is well known in Canton for his secret philanthropies, especially for supplying medical aid to indigents...