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...Wang Yang Ming, I'dealist and Pragmatist of the Ming Dynasty". Professor Porter, Sever...
...China, one Han Yu-ming, a stone cutter, found a small sigil in the foothills of the Taihang mountains. It evidently had belonged to a priest long since dead, for lo! as Han stooped to pick it up, a vision came to him. He heard a voice like the Voice of Thunder. The Voice told Han that the sigil would cure diseases, that soon a leader would come...
Last week, brilliant, rich and potent Chinaman Sze received a cablegram at Washington where he has been Chinese Minister for eight years. At once socially popular Mme. Sze told her servants to pack?everything! Priceless bronzes, her own superb gowns, the first and second best Ming vases, and Dr. Sze's well-worn poker chips?everything...
...Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic. . . . Kum Ming, who was a poet and a wise ruler, destroyed his airplane just before his death for the protection of mankind. . . . He had bombed and destroyed...
...residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...