Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nora Waln's ancestors, Quaker merchants of Philadelphia, had long traded amicably with the Lin family of Hopei and Canton, but no Lin had actually met a Waln till a Lin husband and wife, touring the Western World, called on Nora Waln when she was a student at Swarthmore. They invited her to visit them in China; in 1920 she did, and liked it so well she is still a Chinese resident. Main house of the Lins is in Canton, but her friends were members of the Hopei branch. Their "House of Exile" has been occupied by the family...
Going home for a short visit, she met an Englishman in the Chinese Government Service, had a premonition that he would marry her. He did, and the rest of her book describes chiefly her life in the foreign settlements of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin. All through China's recent troubled years Nora Waln has kept green her friendship with the Lin family. When she wrote her book about them she got bilingual Yeng-peng to read it to the assembled family, asked their permission to publish it. The 18-day reading completed, permission was granted. Said Uncle Keng...
Ohio's Governor White, refusing to declare a bank holiday, prepared legislation to hold withdrawals down to the level of the liquid assets. On his own hook the Mayor of Dayton ordered a three-day moratorium. In Cleveland, Akron, Lima, Canton, and many a smaller city, bankers agreed among themselves to limit withdrawals to a mere dribble of cash. The good-natured, holiday-spirited crowd which thronged the great lobby of Cleveland's Union Trust Co. to get what money it could was typical of similar gatherings in hard-hit States...
Half dozen years ago China was violently antiChristian. Nearly all the missionaries were turned out, their property seized. The missionaries have now returned. Dr. Jones found that his audiences, from Mukden to Canton, listened "with breathless interest." Says Dr. Jones: "China today is in the moment of the Great Hesitation. She has decided not to be antiChristian, but she has not yet decided to be Christian. . . . The whole situation is awaiting a push-a gentle, loving, Christian push...
When General (later President) Chiang Kai-shek marched out of Canton in 1926, taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...