Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Especially significant was Inspector Hoover's recommendation that admiralty laws be amended reducing the amount of salvage that may be claimed by masters of ships which answer another's SOS. Inspector Hoover pictured the reluctance of a captain in time of peril to incur the expense of salvage. "If the amount was reduced, the master of a ship in distress would not hesitate too long before asking for help...
...could grow anything there-lemons, cotton, corn, oats, everything. We'd have done great things there if it hadn't been for the War. That put a stop to everything. The outfit I was working for sold out, but I kept 325,000 acres for myself. It may come in useful someday...
Though this system of Government may seem complex and anomalous in the extreme, it is greatly simplified by the closely interlocked membership of the various Committees, Yuans and Councils...
...Nationalist Government. At last it could be said that a single Cabinet contains all the outstanding soldiers and statesmen of China. The occasion made it appropriate if not imperative to explain just what the Nationalist State is. Available last week was much new and authoritative information which may be summarized thus...
Responsible to the Central Executive Committee are the Political Council and the State Council. The former is a propaganda and political strategy bureau. The latter is unique; but may be called a super-cabinet. The President of the State Council or super-cabinet is Marshal Chiang Kaishek, who is by courtesy "The President of China...