Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erected. Scampering coolies strewed the way toward these arches and the squares at which they stood with symbolically dyed golden sand. Proudly riding to meet one another at the focus of this gold-strewn floral mise en scène came the great Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang...
...Atrocities." Meanwhile Pekingese endured stoically the victorious armies of occupation (adherent to Super-Tuchuns [War Lords] Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin); and Dr. W. W. Yen, recently set up by the Tuchuns as "Chief Executive of China" (TIME, May 10), functioned as the entire Chinese Cabinet, since he could find no Ministers willing to serve under...
...Rises. Marshal Sun* Chuan-feng loomed from his stronghold in central China last week as a super-bandit rapidly on the make and already seriously to be reckoned with as the rival of Chang, Wu and Feng. Two years ago Sun possessed only local influence as Military Governor of Chekiang province. Recently he boldly proclaimed the five provinces now within his grasp to be an independent state. Last week it was discovered that he was plotting against the Peking forces with Super-Tuchun Wu's most trusted henchman, General Chin...
...TIME, May 3) were exercising a ruthless censorship. The consensus of reports was that Dr. W. W. Yen had been set up at Peking as "Chief Executive"* of China," with Dr. Wellington Koo as his Premier and Foreign Minister. He was allegedly supported by the victorious armies of General Chang Hsueh-liang, field commander for his father, the great Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang...
...What prompted Chang Tso-lin to tug delightedly at his large ears? (See CHINA...