Word: manchurian
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...Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade between America and the Soviet Maritime Provinces might contain irritating implications if Japanese invasion caused it to be broken off. The howl which would ascend to the starry skies...
Bishop Kenju Masuyama, primate of the Buddhist Church in North America, gazed at the $50,000 Manchurian Railways Building, a handsome structure in the style of the Kamakura period, built in Chicago of Japanese materials by 25 Japanese carpenters. Said Bishop Masuyama to the man in charge, one Kiyohide Yamashitu...
...North American Buddhist Church. with 12,000 members, has 36 temples, none of them imposing. Having no real estate to spare Bishop Masuyama did not know where he could put a new one. But he planned last week to accept the Manchurian Railways Building, have it dismantled and shipped to the West Coast...
...shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador...
...George Flynn of Texas Petroleum Co. was stabbed in his home in Mukden by Manchurian bandits last week...