Word: cantons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Later he was principal and superintendent of schools in Canton, Maine, and in Auburn, Maine, From 1907 to 1917 he was Maine State Superintendent of Schools, after which he became Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education, the position now held by James G. Reardon...
SILAS CROCKETT-Mary Ellen Chase- Macmillan ($2.50). Silas Crockett was 23, master of the clipper Southern Seas, when in 1830 he returned to the Maine village of Saturday Cove after a profitable voyage to Canton. He was returning to "the shining coast" to marry Solace Winship, high-spirited daughter of a local builder whose untaught good taste had created masterpieces of native architecture throughout Maine. Self-confident, aggressive, Silas was determined to take Solace with him on his next voyage, feared the opposition of her parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after...
After Pan American Airways began practical preparations for its line between San Francisco and Canton, William T. Miller of the Department of Commerce's Air Commerce Bureau quietly sailed out to Hawaii to survey the possibility of establishing depots for U. S. airlines to the Antipodes. With similar lack of fanfare, twelve youngsters from Honolulu's Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys...
...Japanese flagship Tatsuta and ten destroyers steamed into Swatow to force Chinese customs officials to yield up a seized Japanese cargo of rice on which petty provincial taxes had not been paid (TIME, Oct. 14). With set faces, the Japanese Navy officers demanded restitution, apologies, punishment of Canton customs men, abolition of the annoying duties and the right of Japanese to trade in the upriver country back of Swatow. Out of nearby British Hongkong, at that moment, sailed the British Asiatic Fleet, off for the Red Sea and European troubles. Then into Hongkong sailed part of the U. S. Asiatic...
...Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...