Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER."
After smouldering for a month the Russo-Chinese crisis (TIME, July 22, et seq.) was flaring up again. At Moscow, telegrams from Soviet commanders on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier complained to Dictator Josef Stalin of provocative and belligerent raids by Chinese soldiers over the Russian frontier. Plainly the field commanders...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, spending six months in a Washington jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, petitioned President Hoover, through the Department of Justice, for commutation of sentence. His reason: ill health.
According to the flyers, Promoter Montgomery, reputedly head of Hadley & Co., made them president and vice president respectively of Airvia and financed their Rome flight for the use of their names. They were each to get $300 a month, 1,000 shares of Airvia before the flight, 4,000 more...
It was not the only scandal in which Austin Howard Montgomery and his Hadley & Co. were currently involved. They got Clarence Chamberlin, another trans-Atlantic flyer, to be president of Crescent Aircraft Corp., organized last year to manufacture commercial airplanes. They paid $4 for Crescent stock, tried to sell it...