Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad Yangtze to the great inland city of Hankow...
...letters in the collection were sent originally from Boston to the offices of Russell in Canton; then collected and stored there for the sixty odd years since they were written. The majority of dates lie in the period of the seventies, when the affairs of the company were at their height...
...Business School Historical Society has recently acquired a set of old books and records which belonged to Russell and Company, importers and exporters, of Boston and Canton. This collection, which is composed of about a dozen old books and a package of old letters, has considerable value, both from a business viewpoint, and an historical...
...books are mostly filled with records, listing sales and accounts in general, of this company, which did much business in importation, especially of liquors, for the Chinese of the city of Canton. These books have been rotting because of the ravages of white ants, and those of worms. Some of the leaves are filled with the tiny holes made by the destroyers. The one of the books in the worst condition has about half of its cover eaten away, while the remainder is perforated with the holes left by the little beasts. The pages and sheets of the volume...
...richest of U. S. tycoons, Friction-Fighter Timken, 61, has been called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Living in Canton, Ohio, where his plant is located, he finds recreation in horses, fishing, speed boats, aviation. Indoors, he is serious at bridge. Autocratic in his philosophy of business, he feels one man must be unalterably in control. Yet he believes with Henry Ford that good work can come only from good wages, has never had a strike...