Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These mountaineers?his feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
Returning from exile after the Chinese revolution, Wang became the political right hand man of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of the Nationalist Government, just as Chiang became Dr. Sun's most trusted general. Indeed only ten months ago, Wang was Chairman* of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government. But he was ousted by the Nationalist radicals and retired to France just before the Nationalist army set out from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) on its successful campaign to capture all South China. How did Wang return from France so dramatically last week...
Obviously, Chiang's cue was to secure the return of Wang whose views are consonant with his own; and then to launch a political campaign to consolidate the Nationalists around Chiang and Wang, both of whom enjoy considerable prestige as men close to the late Dr. Sun in his last years...
...Samuel Gompers, widow of the late president of the American Federation of Labor: "I was fined $2 last week in Manhattan for failure to muzzle my dog, even though I insisted that nature had neglected to provide my pet with a suitably sized nose...
...present interesting exhibit of reproductions of certain works of Cezanne, which as in the former exhibitions, are for sale, plunges the spectator more into the problems of late nineteenth and early twentieth century art than have the other exhibitions of reproductions which have been held in the print room of the Fogg Art Museum...