Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed...
...prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents in his office opposite City Hall. A master at achieving personal publicity, he once objected strongly to a newspaper article, not because he was described as a thief, but because it said he was born at Waukegan, Ill. instead of in his own First Ward. Forty years ago, reporters took to writing balderdash poems, attributing them to Bathhouse John...
...control station, joined him there. A Ford steering wheel, shoulder-high, had been hitched to the release valve. On the governor two V-8 emblems would begin to move as the giant got under way. Mr. Ford gave the wheel seven or eight turns. Nothing happened. The Master of Dearborn frowned, turned to Engineer Smith, and his lips seemed to frame the question, "What the hell?" Smith signaled to keep on turning...
Lawyer Hall was paid his $99,900 fee without question. But when he asked for $12,000 more, the embattled oil companies put up a fight, charging that Special Master Hall had tried to arrange an out-of-court settlement by which he would be cut in on the patents to the extent of $250,000. A U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally held: ''It is perfectly clear on the whole evidence that [Hall] betrayed his trust by attempting to deceive, intimidate and coerce a wealthy litigant . . . with the corrupt motive of gaining for himself an enormous...
...Special Master Hall not only lost the $12,000 which he hoped to get as a bonus: the court instructed him to return to the oil companies $44,700 of the original $99,900 with interest at 6% from 1926, an additional sum amounting to nearly $26,000. The refund was figured on the ground that 447 days spent by Holmes Hall "studying the record'' was so much time wasted. The repayment was not made. So last week in Kansas City Circuit Judge Albert Reeves ordered Special Master Hall to pay up within 60 days, or else...