Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME, Nov. 23). For more than 40 days, according to his telegram, General Ma has been double-crossing everyone with a skill and success unrivaled even among heathen Chinese...
Voters amused themselves in Tokyo last week by such whimsies as voting for Chinese General Ma Chan-shan, for Japan's recently assassinated "Peace Man," Junnosuke Inoye, and for late, great Japanese such as Prince Ito ("the Bismarck of Japan"). One jokester voted "Give us rice!" But the Government of the Old Fox felt so strong that its censor passed these little jokes. The Old Fox could say: "A vote for the Seiyukai hastens the return of prosperity," while the opposition could only mutter innocuously: "One cannot feed on a fictitious boom...
...General Ma, the famed Chinese defender of Tsitsihar, who fled so swiftly after stating "I will die so long as one Chinese stands by my side" (TiME, Nov. 30), placed himself under Japan's orders last week. But should the new "Independent Government" be Republican or Imperial...
Allegretto ma non Troppo...
Allegro assai vivace, ma serioso...