Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With his sisters' marriage to Sun Yatsen, Nationalist leader, he immediately cast in his lot with the southerners., Rising immediately to the head of the Finance Department he completely revolutionized the old method of tax collecting. The old system with all its red tape and abuses was completely scraped and a new organization started in which each collector was responsible directly to the Finance Minister for the taxes he raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed...
...death of Charles E. Ruthenberg," said the Communist (Chicago radical monthly), "the American working class lost its most conscious, its most courageous and its ablest leader...
...Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito, received last week the first resignation of a Cabinet during his reign (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), at 9:10 a. m. from the Imperial Chamberlain. By 11:00 a. m. newsboys were crying on the street that the new Premier was General Baron Guchi Tanaka, leader of the Seiyuka.* Thus New Japan, with her young athletic, enlightened Tenno and highspeed printing presses, kept the public waiting not over two hours for an exchange of government which in ancient days endured decorously and interminably. Japanese editors applauded the new Tenno for following the typical Occidental procedure...
...stalwart educator, journalist, statesman will advise and guide the Virginia venture, among them Governors Byrd of Virginia and Ritchie of Maryland, Presidents Butler of Columbia University and Chase of the University of North Carolina, Senators Couzens of Michigan and Glass of Virginia, Editors Freeman of the Richmond News-Leader and Fishburne of the Roanoke Times; and Viscountess Astor, British M. P., vivacious daughter of the old Virginia aristocracy...
Questioned as to what American League player is likely to be adjudged the most variable to his team this year, the Yankee leader quickly answered. "I have no way of knowing, but I imagine it will be someone in the pitching line...