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...General Li had never been executed at all; but everything came out all right, because almost at once "Extra Extra Extras!" were out with the news that Li had been cut down before he was quite hanged.* In other words, the revolutionary situation in Nanking, last week, was so chaotic that scarcely anyone knew where they were at. One evening it was creditably reported that the General Staff had mutinied and deposed President Chiang Kaishek; but the very next morning China's bantamweight President-who as Marshal Chiang conquered all China-marched forth against the rebels as chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wu's Coup de Corde | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...casual observer, the suggested reform to the tune of $11,000,000 to make an "inner-college" system, seems infinitely preferable to the present chaotic system at Harvard, where all the students with the exception of the Freshmen, are cliqued in small groups all over Cambridge and eat and sleep wherever their purses and inclinations desire...

Author: By Brown DAILY Herald., | Title: Sacrilege and Crime | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...carve an everlasting memorial to the Confederacy's heroes, Lee, Jackson, Davis and their men, on the awesome bluff of Stone Mountain, Ga. The dismissal of famed and fiery Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the engaging of Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman ushered in a period of vacillation and chaotic nagging which left the project at a virtual standstill (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Again, Borglum | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Ponderous, squat, ungainly were the trunks of the 1890's, trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic. Women packed them with patient art, men loaded them with chaotic haste; bent backs and weary arms accompanied their movement. Travelers, arriving at destinations, had first to unpack trunks, lest folded garments acquire permanent wrinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Innovations | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Parlor and kitchen together, the financing of wars and the support of the bastard sons of kings, made the House of Rothschild master of a chaotic Europe for half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rothschild Sons | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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