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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rignon done, visitors wondered, to deserve such gratitude? Villagers explained. Dom Pérignon had been the abbey's cellar keeper. It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...
...these things were going on in China last week, callow Nationalist officials prattled of grandiose schemes. Most pompous was that of Wang Peh-chun, Minister of Communications. With his department $700,000,000 in debt, he propounded a "General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half a dozen...
...believed in Buddha, but suddenly my mother fell ill. I prayed long and earnestly, and with full faith before our household Buddhistic idol but my mother died. That shook my faith in idols...
...that I am back in China, I see the evils of Communism, and I have shifted my allegiance to the Kuomintang Party, and to the Three Principles of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen. These principles now suffice for me, and I think that after long searching I have found what most appeals to me as truth...
...Story. Mother Concepcion, sinister, mysterious master mind, has long made it a practice to gather about her youthful impressionable idealists, wheedle them into fanatics, use them as instruments, her end being the deliverance of Mexico from "religious persecution...