Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in the French Concession at Shanghai two Chinese disguised as orange peddlers assassinated one of China's leading businessmen and her leading Christian philanthropist. Joseph Lo Pa-hong, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Papal Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest...
...returned from a European shopping tour for war supplies (TIME, Aug. 30). Premier Kung, a descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius (whose memorial tablet on the Classical Mountain Taishan was threatened by Japanese last week) is a Chinese conservative. However, his first act as Premier was to order freed from Chinese jails virtually all prisoners, and the majority of these happened to be Communists. Dispatches reported Chinese Communist leaders pressing Premier Kung and Generalissimo Chiang to "give weapons...
...first item declared that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to elevate Sir Robert to the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The second announced that the Prime Minister had caused to be created for Sir Robert the new post of Chief Adviser to the Foreign Office. His duties, according to this unusual official announcement, will be "advising the Secretary of State [Anthony Eden] upon all major questions of policy concerning foreign affairs . . . and representing the Foreign Office on any occasions, whether at home or abroad...
...Portfolio Professor Alexander Cuza. Professor Cuza was not only founder of a predecessor of the present National Christian Party but is a famed oldtime Fascist and a vigorous Jew-baiter. Disdaining the Nazi swastika, Fascist Cuza has used a blue swastika as his party symbol (since 1910). In short order terrified Rumanian Jews learned that...
...same was true of petroleum, copper and machine tools. On the broad economic front Soviet production is rising, as indeed Tsarist industrial production rose spectacularly in the decade before the Revolution, but Soviet fulfillment of the Plans as a "system of planned economy" or a "planned economic order" cannot be found by neutral economists in Moscow-each of whom has his own pet instances in which he thinks he has caught Gosplan quibbling, contradicting official figures with official figures, or just plain lying...