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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famed Chinaman of today is Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, called 'the Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...
Died. Robert Grain, 63, Maryland politician & corporation lawyer; owner of the largest private estate in Maryland, famed host; of intestinal trouble; in Washington...
Stock of the Continental National Bank & Trust Co., Chicago's biggest bank, seventh largest in the U. S., mounted in three weeks from $545 to $676. And stock of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., second biggest in Chicago, tenth in the U. S., jumped from...
They might mean consolidation of Chicago's two largest banks into a $1,000,000,000 institution, second in size only to the National City Bank (N. Y.). Listed in order of deposits, the new U. S. banking chart might read...
Banks. In Chicago, bankers foresaw a merger of the two "biggest" institutions, forming the second largest bank...