Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain reviewed the existing status quo in China with especial reference to British interests. Said he: "The Government of Canton is for the time being under influences which are so blindly anti-British that the Cantonese are not open to a reasonable settlement" (of the anti-British commercial boycott* declared by the local Chinese Bolshevist Government at Canton [TIME, June 29] in defiance of the impotent "Government of China" at Peking...
...back as 1921, there were 20 teams in the Professional Football League formed, and headed by J. F. Carr. Most of the teams in the league represented cities of Ohio, and the games centered around Canton. Since then, at least 30 more professional teams have sprung up in the territory extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. The scope of the new football craze is perhaps best measured by the size of the cities which support the salaried players most generously. Charles Brickley '15 organized a team in New York several years ago, and this rather unsuccessful venture has been...
...spite of the frequent revolutions, in spite of the fact that the Communists have seized Canton, in spite of the tremendous size of China, I have no fear that China will break up into small countries. All the leaders of revolutions are not declaring the independence of their various provinces, but are trying to gain control of China. There are 21 provinces in China now; in my diocese, which is composed of one and a half provinces, there are more people than in France and England put together. Yet linguistically, culturally, and racially the people are homogeneous, and so China...
...radical "South China Government" at Canton was reported strongly disposed to unite with...
...bought and edited the Toledo Journal for nine years. He was probate Judge of Lucas County for six years. He edited the Canton News-Democrat for ten years...