Word: li
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Li'l of Noo Yawk is not always first. For Mickey Mouse first became Art at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia last autumn; (who dares say nowadays that Philadelphia is slow?) and Mickey as Art in the temple of the muses first appeared in New York State at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts last November, immediately following the Philadelphia showing. And verily the last shall not be first...
...truth in the Cantonese charges. General Hwang Fu, generally considered friendly to Japan, rushed to Peiping as an emissary from Chiang, presumably to dicker for peace. Word reached Tientsin last week of a Chinese army marching parallel to and cooperating with the Japanese troops. Its commander is a General Li Lichen who raised the old five-barred flag, first flag of the Chinese Republic, in Chinwangtao in March, is supposed to have been picked by Japan to head still another North China puppet state. This one's name would be HOPEIKUO...
...France, viewing it as a rival to her summer tourist trade, is not merely ignoring the Chicago doings but last week opened on a grand scale her Paris industrial fair in competition. Germany, having declined to participate, was last week reported thinking of sending over her chief propagandist, li'ttle Paul Joseph Goebbels (see p. 21). Chicago, where 50,000 Jews demonstrated against Adolf Hitler last week, made known that no German envoy would be received officially...
...road was built with French money, France had a claim. Last week Japan had a solution for the tangle. It primed the puppet Manchukuo Government to try to horn in as the heir of China's rights in the railroad. The Manchukuoan board chairman of the Chinese Eastern, Li Shao-ken, loudly claimed the road for Manchukuo. He added that, though Soviet rights in the road went back no further than the 1917 Revolution, Russia has some rights. Then Li Shao-ken stepped back, his piece spoken, to let the two real principals continue their huge haggle...
...province of Szechwan in China lived until last week Li Ching-yun. In China where Age means something he was a great man. By his own story he was born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. He continued to gather herbs for the rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like...