Word: kans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turns out that everybody wants to see the mayor. As I enter the mayor's office another stereotype vanishes. People in Israel had told me about hand-carved mahogany chairs and tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl. On the contrary, the office is simple, nearly austere. Mayor Hamdi Kan'an is seated in front of a desk with his coat on; the room is under-heated on this unusually cold winter day. In a corner there is one electric heater. Mr. Kan'an tells me that the building trade in his city has been hit hard by the outcome...
...same time there is unemployment. Mayor Kan'an emphasizes this. He admits that there is always a job shortage in Nablus. But previously a man would travel to Amman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia to find employment, often sending money to his family which remained on the West Bank. Now the frontiers are closed. Naturally the Arabs hold the Jews responsible for this economic hardship...
...observation of his birthday. Every year the Formosans disobey. This year, for the Gimo's 81st, dragon and lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...
Organized 98 years ago, the Prohis hit their high watermark in 1892, when their presidential candidate got 271,058 votes. Since then, they have endured a long, dry spell at the polls. Their most notable victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof...
...necessary precaution, Chiang sought a Vice President who could take on more of his administrative and diplomatic burdens and take over interim control of the country if he died in office. His choice was balding, Western-educated Premier Yen Chia-kan, 61, a vigorous administrator and the author of many of Formosa's dramatic economic reforms-and yet, surprisingly, a controversial figure in the Kuomintang. Unlike most Nationalist leaders, Yen is neither a military man nor a faithful party professional; he is even accused of being ill informed about Kuomintang "party history." So wary of him is the party...