Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with Kenyon, Ohio, home of Kenyon College which produced U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes; nor with Canton, Ohio, home of U. S. President William McKinley...
...MAGIC MOUNTAIN?Thomas Mann?Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...
When, however, the ominous rumblings of civil war increased in 1915 and Chinese patriots started to flock to the nationalist standard in the south, Soong found himself moving towards Canton with the rest of the revolutionists...
...from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
...there was indignation in the Hoover plant at Canton, Ohio, when the Sesquicentennial Exposition managers gave the grand prize to the Eureka and the secondary gold medal to the Hoover. "There was knavery in the awarding," said Hoover men, and their lawyers brought suit, alleging that the Exposition managers unexpectedly changed the rules of their carpet cleaner contest, that they unexpectedly changed their jury of award, that an award of a gold medal to Eureka had been wrongly changed to the award of the grand prize. The Eureka Co. has done damage to the Hoover concern reads the bill...