Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served to the men before they left for the Twentieth Century Club where the concert was followed by a dance. The Tennis Club and Country Club dances each attracted a Harvard following, while the greatest number of men went to a special entertainment given in their honor by a former University track celebrity. Due to the long run to Cincinnati before them. Buffalo was left behind at 1 o'clock...
...backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary Weir Logan...
Naturally realtors in "Nanking" or "Southern Capital" sported last week on the crest of a boom which had shot all desirable buildings up to approximately 15 times their former value, with land appraisals up tenfold...
Responsible to the Central Executive Committee are the Political Council and the State Council. The former is a propaganda and political strategy bureau. The latter is unique; but may be called a super-cabinet. The President of the State Council or super-cabinet is Marshal Chiang Kaishek, who is by courtesy "The President of China...
...foreign control of China's tariff machinery (TIME, June 25); and last week it appeared that no Great Power except Japan would challenge China's present determination to fix her tariffs without foreign interference. The new schedules provide an average tariff of 18%, as opposed to the former 5% plus 2.5% surtax. In defending this sharp increase Finance Minister T. V. Soong declared, probably quite truthfully, that the new Nationalist Government is "in imperative need of funds" to liquidate their Civil War Debt and carry out their impressive programs of peaceful development and reform...