Word: hsi
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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 leaders of all Chinese factions had ceased fighting, concluded a speedy truce to present a united front against the Russians...
...cost, it was worth it to get rid of turbulent Feng. Last week a stable China united under one government seemed nearer fulfillment than at any time in the past 18 years. Feng's armies and dominions, it was announced, were to be turned over to Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, strong ally of the Nationalists, "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...
...Hsi a Materialist?" Professor Porter, Widener...
...Hsi on the Cosmic Root of Ethics", Professor Porter, Widener...
...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...