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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the week President Chiang Kai-shek left Honan where he had been directing operations against the People's Army (northern rebels, supposedly under the direction of Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan) for Nanking. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria came a second report: military...
In Havana last week Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez Signed a city ordinance forbidding the use of rear view mirrors in taxicabs. Citizens had complained that cab drivers were using the mirrors for "the impudent eyeing of the pulchritude and behavior of passengers." Safe therefore from the impudent eyes of Cuban...
The quietest period in Japan's fiscal year is the winter months between the old and new silk cocoon crops.- Bearing well in mind fragile, brown, papery cocoons. Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye last week chose Jan. 11, 1930 as the date for putting Japan's currency {yen...
The late great John Pierpont Morgan once sat for his portrait. Because he sat impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27...
Back to his studio went Photographer Steichen, sorely nettled. He labored over the second plate until he got a fine, enlarged print. He showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When...