Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will certify," said he, "that Gov. Wood is neither against independence nor against those who loyally work for the people's aspirations...
...Conference") was indefinitely postponed because of the extremely chaotic political situation now existing in China (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The conferees were to have assembled at Peking last week, where the Nine-Power Chinese Customs Conference is at present marking time owing to the impotence of "the Peking Gov- ernment of China," with which both conferences expected to deal...
...says Dr. Robert T. Morris, brother-in-law of Arthur Twining Hadley (President Emeritus of Yale) and son of the late Gov. Luzon B. Morris of Conn...
Many years ago the Brazilian Gov ernment undertook a policy of "coffee valorization," which in simpler English means rigging the world market for coffee, of which Brazil is the chief producing nation. Every now and again, high prices thus established would cur tail consumption and encourage large production, and a large surplus would result which would have to be held off the market lest its sale smash the artificially high prices...
Peking. Students, mostly children, backed by merchants, shopkeepers, coolies, continued to parade the streets demanding armed action against the British. Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui requisitioned troops to guard foreigners. The Diplomatic Corps warned the Gov ernment that it must take energetic steps to quell anti-foreign disturbances. The Government replied that the disturbances were caused by foreigners...