Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These two qualities of the two most able leaders of the present central committee might, quite innocently, lead to a split; if our party does not take measures to prevent it, a split might arise unexpectedly...
...short, frail-seeming, slender Chinese took national bulk and stature last week as the War Lord presumptive of half China. Within the space of two full moons his armies have swarmed up from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang...
Mopping up. Of the two commanders who had defended Wuchang, General Liu Yu-chun was dragged from the house of Dr. A. M. Sherman, Principal of the Central China University, where he had taken refuge; and General Chen Kaimu, onetime Governor of Hupeh province was seized as he fled Wuchang in coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion...
...black oblong all by itself in a glass case ten times too large for it, such rubbish might as well be burned, and better. She turned away and, crossing a large white granite hall, found a taxi that would take her away as quickly as possible from the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, and the International Collection of Postage Stamps which opened there last week...
Near the stamps of Collector Hind the lights of the Grand Central Palace shone on a stamp with George Washington's face on it (an old New York issue, one of the rarest stamps in the world); the "St. Louis" 20-cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some...