Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge for remaining "loyal" to the Nanking Government thrifty General Chen Chi-tang has demanded and received more than $3,000,000 in the past three months. Flush with cash, General Chen turned his thoughts last week to tender young monkeys, the kind served temptingly in Canton restaurants as a spécialité de la maison, which tastes not unlike chicken...
...Mutiny on the Bounty Captain Bligh was pictured as a villainous slavedriver. Men against the Sea shows him every inch a hero. The transformation is made plausible because this time the narrator is one of Bligh's most loyal followers. When at dawn on April 28, 1789, two-thirds of the Bounty's crew mutinied and put Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away...
...Order of St. Michael & St. George out of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court. To 32 Canadian women he gave the Order of the British Empire for their good and charitable works. Snapped ex-Premier King, now Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at Ottawa: "An attempt to create in Canada a social order based on titular distinctions is not only unwise and inconsiderate, but is both rash and unjust...
...most of the employes completed their payments, took title to their stock, soon to be reduced in par value from $20 to $12.50 and now selling in the open market at about $19. The day last week's payment was due a number of National City's loyal employes resigned. Reason: by leaving the employ of the bank before the stock was turned over to them they were entitled to receive back the full amount they had paid in on installment, plus interest. ¶Stockholders of Socony-Vacuum finally satisfied the proposed merger of their Far Eastern...
...International Harvester Co. Last week Harvester's Chairman Cyrus H. McCormick said to his directors: "Among the many things for which our company must always be grateful to Alexander Legge is the fact that he built up and bequeathed to us a strong organization of able, trained and loyal men." The directors had no difficulty in deciding which of those men should succeed Mr. Legge. They named Addis Emmet MeKinstry, 63, who had worked for the company and its predecessor since he was 16, as stock boy, agent, district salesmanager, plant superintendent, vice president. ¶Hahn Department Stores...