Word: napoleons
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Labors of Chiang. Because he was born near Ningpo, small-boned, slender-waisted Dictator Chiang is sometimes called "The Ningpo Napoleon," and his right to dictate to 450 million people is based on the thumping fact that as the leader of the "National People's Party" Revolutionary Army he set out from Canton in 1926 and proceeded to conquer all China. In this adventure the Soviet Government helped with money, munitions, propaganda spread ahead of General Chiang's soldiers by secret agents under Moscow's ace propagandist Michael Borodin, and finally by sending to act as Chiang...
...execrated; resignation by Chiang of all his Chinese offices on two separate occasions; one visit by the General to Japan where years ago he got his original military training at Tokyo Military Academy; his marriage to Christian Miss Soong, and his baptism as a Southern Methodist after the Ningpo Napoleon had said, "I feel the need of a God such as Jesus Christ...
Instead of trying to fight Japan, which he considered hopeless, the Dictator has waged innumerable practice wars upon Chinese Communist forces. These organized themselves in the hinterland under those Soviet auspices which made possible the original conquest of China by the Ningpo Napoleon. In 1934 the bulk of China's insurgent Communists had been coralled by Chiang in Kiangsi Province, and the Generalissimo's officers awaited orders, the execution of which, they confidently told him, would drive the Reds "into the sea"-i. e. down to the South China seacoast where they could be conveniently slaughtered...
Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...There was a comet when Caesar died," he recalls. The comet turns out to be only a meteor. "We shall have to die without a comet," muses Napoleon Bonaparte. The play ends with Marchand reading to him from the wars of Hannibal...