Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shantung, and proceeded to return there last week "as the climate is good for my asthma." Chinese expected Feng's "asthma"-a standing joke-to last until he sees a fresh chance to rush forth on another profitable military escapade. During his previous retirement the League of Nations Lytton Commission investigating Japan's seizure of Manchuria tried to consult Feng on Taishan, were turned away by the excuse that...
...Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World's Fair's Midway. A good part of the U. S. public has now heard about the Streets of Paris. Some 800,000 sightseers have already been...
...countrymen on the warp of a new political thesis. This thesis holds that the white man, since Metternich developed the principle of wholesale intervention, has held that principle his exclusive preserve, and is inclined to view with anger any Japanese poaching. Thus the League Council continued, despite the Lytton report, to speak of the national Chinese government as if such a government did exist, without regard to the fact that Chiang Kiashek was not on substantially better terms with Canton and the Communist South than he was with the berserk Manchurian freebooters of the North. Under these conditions, the withdrawal...
...Seely for his work in Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made a Knight of the Thistle for his good behavior. Lord Lytton was made a Knight of the Garter for his League report on Manchuria...
...George Lytton came forward just once, to hand over the concert's proceeds to Pianist Rudolph Ganz, president of the Bohemian Club which is concentrating this year on helping indigent musicians. Everyone in the audience knew that the modest contra-bassist was the founder of the Chicago Businessmen's Orchestra, that for eleven years he had borne the brunt of its expenses, given it a place to rehearse in his big Hub Store. Boxing, not music, was George Lytton's hobby when he first joined his father in the men's clothing business. He used...