Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be looked upon by Europe as American commitments, while on the other hand the American Congress might take a differing attitude and the American Senate would consider itself perfectly free to disavow such views and policies and to reject any such commitments as would be subject to its control...
...shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that the Committee, although definitely on record as desiring to oust General Chiang and take control of the army itself, did not actually take this hazardous step...
...Hankow, last week, by the Chinese workers, egged on by the Nationalists, who announced that the factory will henceforth be run on Communist lines; 2) announcement by the Provost of Johns Hopkins University, Charles K. Edmunds, to Shanghai reporters that during a recent visit to Canton he formally relinquished control of the historic Canton Christian College to the Nationalists. "I personally welcome the transfer," said Mr. Edmunds. "The Chinese attitude is wholesome, and the Nationalist movement, at any rate in Canton, [where it originated] is promising"; 3) announcement at New Haven, Conn., by the trustees of Yale-In-China that...
First National. Stanley Co., which controls several hundred theatres, has just bought control of First National...
...Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power, I do not believe that China will become imperialistic, certainly...