Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chang Tso-lin, ontime "King of Bandits," Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai - beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights...
...quite very well then, Mr. Senator," said Chang Tso-lin, indifferently. "If that is the way you Westerners feel about women, Mme. Borodin shall not be shot...
Then, as the tall, stern Senator relaxed, Chang added contemptuously: "Me have always been puzzled why Western men are so foolish about their women...
Reputedly Senator Bingham, six feet tall and harsh of voice, told the small and slim but ruthless Chang Tso-lin that if he ordered the execution of Mme. Borodin public opinion in the U. S. would consider the War Lord a mere barbarian...
Last week Chang Tso-lin adopted an attitude of even greater indifference toward chunky, placid, middle-aged Mme. Borodin. She was released from jail under an amnesty, and at once hastened to Tientsin, preparing to embark there for Vladivostok...