Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hasten negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from Shanghai. While the Gimo conferred, Nanking surged with discussion of the Communist terms...
...excuse for all this, the HAA pleads lack of funds. Consequently it has been necessary to solicit the freshmen themselves. But there are rumors of increased HAA aid next year. This seems only fitting. Such a worthwhile undertaking deserves fully as much cooperation and encouragement as its elder counterpart in the Houses...
...ventured to guess how the voting would go. Kashmir's popular Premier, Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, is for union with India. For religious as well as economic reasons, many of his countrymen (85% Mohammedan) would vote for Pakistan. Said a Kashmiri village elder: "In the old days, one candidate offered us a ride to the voting place, a second offered us money. Then, even so, we voted for the third...
...some sort of an interim government could be patched up, Vice President Li would probably take over the presidency. The Gimo might retire to Formosa. Last week, as though in readiness, his trusted former chief of staff, General Chen Cheng became governor of the island. Chiang's elder son, Ching-kuo, became the Kuomintang provincial chairman in Formosa...
...could tell when he had got back home to Maryland's climate, "for every House was an infirmary." But in spite of fever and "vapourish qualms" he stuck it out, was elected to the legislature and married the daughter of Daniel Dulany the elder, one of Maryland's richest men. Wrote one member of Hamilton's ribald Tuesday Club to a fellow member then in England: "Poor Hamilton is gone-not dead, but married...