Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of these regulations the Presbyterian Missions Board of Governors, at Manhattan, ordered closed last week for an indefinite period the 81-year-old Hangchow Christian College at Hangchow, China...
Most other Christian institutions of Chinese learning are now obeying the Nationalist regulations, which additionally stipulate that there must be a Chinese majority on all academic boards of directors and that every college president must be a Chinaman...
...Macy's is pledged with the Women's Christian Temperance Union never to advertise beverage shakers in any way to be confused with cocktails or alcoholic drinks...
Pregnant with significance was the continued harmony existing, last week, between the Nationalist Government and their great, voluntarily subordinate ally: the Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest personal army in the world. Whether Feng will remain subordinate to the Nationalists, seize power by a coup d'état, or quietly wangle* himself into control of their Government is a question only now beginning to be answered...
...conference of the Nationalist Marshals in Peking last week Feng Yu-hsiang proposed that "all except the best disciplined" Nationalist soldiers should now be disbanded, since victory has been won. The Christian Marshal's worst enemies will not deny that his troops are the best disciplined in all China; and therefore his proposal seemed the week's Perfect Wangle...