Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field, at a considerable distance from Peking, while he rushed to Nanking because of disagreement within the Nanking Nationalist Executive Council. Thus the first troops to march into Peking were 6,000 orderly soldiers of Chang's ally (nominally his subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious...
Soon General Pao reported to the indignant but helpless Diplomatic Corps at Peking that Feng's troops had refused Pao's men passage through their lines, thus having repudiated the safe conduct of "Model Governor...
Shortly some 50,000 troops of "Christian" Feng Yu-hsiang surrounded Peking, which was still occupied by the 6,000 "model" troops, with luckless General Pao encamped outside the walls. The next presumptuous step of Feng's troops was to take General Pao into custody and disarm...
...rest of us hope that TIME will mercifully refrain from forming its style on Mr. Hammond Jr.'s model? We might stand for the canned music department, but not for the other...
...with such sure tactics that Miss Spence made her school the Manhattan model for discipline and scholarship as well as for what was then referred to as gentility. Her gayety, her wisdom, and her lofty character came to be reflected in the school she ran so long. When she died in 1923, Miss Charlotte S. Baker became the principal, aided by two assistants, Miss Helen Clarkson Miller and Miss Grace A. McElroy. Miss Miller made an announcement last week which surprised Spence girls more than any Spence girls have ever been surprised since the night of that banquet, long...