Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Hough, 56, reported the incident to his superior, Vice Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He recalled, too, that while commander of the Yangtze patrol, the post he still occupies, he narrowly escaped death while playing golf on the Hankow course...
But in Far Cathay? an incident occurred which gave rise to the "joke" in the London club. A British plane made a forced landing on Chinese territory?on a golf course just outside Shanghai, and a Royal Air Force detachment was sent to salvage the machine. Chinese authorities protested, kept...
"We intend to use this incident to force a showdown in the matter of flights in China. We intend to hold the wings. We have not the force to meet British imperialism, but we intend to let the world know what they are doing."
The Manhattan tabloids, knowing well the intrusiveness of their picture-takers, "played down" the incident, mentioning it only as though such things were in the usual run of weddings and publishing for the masses.
By steady plugging and with the co-operation of the Shah (whose revenue has been larger under Dr. Millspaugh than ever before) sufficient progress has been made so that the present budget shows a surplus. Time and again the Majlis (Parliament) has been ready to oust the U. S. Administrator...