Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 1899 and 1944 William George Rolph had put in a lot of time with U.S. forces. In 1911 he enlisted in the Marines, landed at Pekin and Shanghai to help protect U.S. citizens during the Chinese revolution. Five years later he stormed a fort with the Marines in Santo Domingo, later served in Haiti...
Three years ago Dr. Chen became Bishop of the Methodist Church's Chungking Area. (Only other Chinese Methodist Bishop: Dr. Z. T. Kaung of Pekin.) Chungking's population ebbs & flows with so many refugees that even the Bishop does not know how many Methodists are there. In all China there are not more than five million Christians. But Bishop Chen is more than a Methodist leader. He is a great interfaith leader, and Chinese of all beliefs know of him and his work for Chinese unity. He is a prime force in the Fellowship of Religious Believers...
...Everett McKinley Dirksen, 47, a big, tousled, thoughtful, farm-minded Representative from Pekin, Ill., a town of 19,000 population which lies on the east bank of the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. The Pride of Pekin told the Washington press that 36 fellow Congressmen from 13 States had signed a petition urging him to try for the Republican Presidential nomination. He insisted that he was a serious candidate. He scorned any idea of acting as a "favorite son," which is the main strategy of the Pew-Hamilton "stop Willkie" campaign...
...other refineries had shut down within the week: the Pekin, Ill. plant of Corn Products Refining Co. (world's second largest) and the American Maize Products factory at Roby, Ind. These shutdowns were serious business: corn products are a staple of war (munitions, alcohol), as well as in civilian life. The refineries closed because, in effect, the U.S. corn growers were on strike: they didn't want to sell their corn at the $1.07 ceiling price, when they could make a better profit feeding the corn to hogs (or selling it to hog growers via the black market...
...Goethe) "Marche Slave" Fantasia" Aida" Salute to Our Fighting Forces Arranged by Halls of Montezuma-Semper Army Air Corps-Anchors As the Caissons Go Rolling Along God Bless America Sunday Evening, May 16 Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Streets of Pekin (Chinese Impressions...