Word: hong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maier, famous pianist, will give a concert at the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. The program of this recital is as follows: I To an Old White Pine Macdowell Variations Mozart Prelude Glierre Perpetual Motion Poulenc Rush Hour in Hong Kong Chasins Two Cuban Dances Cervantes The Crapshooters' Dance Lane On Wings of Song Mendelssohn-Liszt La Campanclla Paganini-Liszt II Krazy Kat Ballet Carpenter
...Alden Carpenter '97, honorary A.M. '22. Maier will explain the high points of the ballet during the actual playing. His program, which is of an unusual sort, will include the following pieces: I To an Old White Pine Macdowell Variations Mozart Prelude Glierre Perpetual Motion Poulenc Rush Hour in Hong Kong Chasins Two Cuban Dances Cervantes The Crapshooters Dance Lane On Wings of Song Mendelssohn-Liszt La Campanella Paganini-Liszt II Krazy Kat Ballet John Alden Carpenter
...group of Chinese men gathered last week in a large dismal house in Hong Kong. They watched a man write figures on a board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver...
...last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...
After a period of training in New York men are sent to foreign depots for a brief period--such cities as Manila, Hong Kong, or Tokio, and are then sent out to the end of a railroad or steamboat line, there to serve as the local representative of the Standard system...