Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationalism, which is the basis of the anti foreign movement, is becoming the basis of a patriotism which demands the union and preservation of the Chinese people. The political significance of this Nationalist movement is great There is opposition to the foreign control of post office, customs, rail ways, and revenues, urgent demand for the abolition of the existing unequal treaties with the Great Powers, for the abandonment of concessions, legations, foreign courts, and consular jurisdiction: and a zealous effort to curb the colonial expansion of the imperialistic powers...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...wife of H. H. Kung, a gentleman whose august destiny is summed up in the fact that he claims to be a lineal descendant of Confucius. The second was internationally known as the wife, and later as the revered widow, of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "sainted" founder of the Nationalist movement. She is now reported married (TIME, Oct. 10) to her late husband's zealous co-worker Chen Yu-jen ("Eugene Chen"), until recently Foreign Minister to the defunct Hankow Nationalist Government (TIME, April...
...Master Farmers' Dinner was part of a movement as yet little lauded in the U. S. The farmers' magazines have supported these dinners and helped to choose farmers respected in their communities as good citizens as well as good farmers. Such men are "master farmers." At their annual dinners they receive gold medals of recognition. At Chicago last week 13 Illinois men received medals. There had been only 35 awarded in the whole state before...
...Supreme Court and the States Rights Movement up to 1831," Professor Boyd, New Lecture Hall...