Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early reports that Canton had been captured by the southern rebels appar-ently convinced the "Christian General" that the time had come to step out for himself. He set soldiers to work tearing Up bridges and railroads, concentrated his private army of 150,000 in Honan province, made a statement charging President Chiang with misappropriating government funds, expressed his determination to fight the Nationalist Government...
Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, the hard-bitten U. S. Marine who lately returned from commanding a China patrol force, last week declared to the Wayne, Pa., Chamber of Commerce...
...large General Motors automobile family have come two recent additions: Viking, Marquette. Viking belongs to the Cadillac-La Salle group, employs the famed V-type eight cylinder motor, sells for fess than ($1,595) the La Salle, just as La Salle sells for less than the Cadillac. Marquette is a Buick offspring, made in the Buick plant, sold at $965 to $1,035-considerably less than the Buick figure. The first Vikings were brought out last month; the first Marquettes went on display June...
Following general advances in the price of crude oil. Standard Oil of Indiana and Sinclair Refining (subsidiary of Sinclair Consolidated) announced increases in the wholesale price of gasoline (½? to 1? a gal- lon on carload lots). Meanwhile production continued to ride boisterously in advance of previous figures and President Hoover himself was moved to call an oil-restriction conference which, meeting...
...into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...