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...arrived the first batch of Chinese government students in the U. S., among them young Tang Shao-yi. In 1912 Tang became First Premier of the Chinese Republic. Last week venerable Tang arrived in Canton, lent by his presence an air of respectability to the successful revolution there (TIME, May 11). Canton vernacular papers told their readers: "Tang Shao-yi is a personal friend of Hoover Herbert,* President of the United States of America. . . . Their friendship began 30 years ago when Hoover Herbert was a young engineer in China...
...White House last week Hoover Herbert and Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this...
...tentacles through the redolent demimonde of Los Angeles politics. The memory of Chicago's Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle was still too fresh to allow a repetition in Journalist Spencer's case of the public error of canonizing him too soon as a martyr, a public crusader like Canton, Ohio's revered Editor Don R. Mellett...
...Hemenway, whose gifts included a high school and library building furnished to the town of Canton, served the University as an Overseer. He was a trustee of several large estates, served on the Metropolitan Park Commission which created the Revere Beach Reservation, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two years...
...young marshal refused to come, had he made excuses tarrying up North in Peiping or Manchuria, the game of President Chiang would have been definitely up. The President's strength is now in the North, a paradox, for he got his start in the South at Canton, where revolution burst last week. From Canton in the brief space of two years (1926-28) President Chiang conquered all China. His only hope of maintaining this conquest now lies in the friendship of Marshal Chang and other Northern leaders. Last week in Nanking no dainty was too good for the Northern...