Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet were all technically abolished. Communist soldiers replaced the large red stars on their caps with small white stars, became, with no loss of time or commanders, the Eighth Route Army of the Nationalist Government. Nanking in return was pledged to "introduce democracy in China as soon as the war is over," never to sign away any Chinese territory, and to fight Japan...
...arrayed behind him because of his fight against C. I. O. According to orthodox Canadian newsorgans, the Premier has now indisputably balanced Ontario's budget, retired $33,000,000 in bonds of the Province and augmented revenues while reducing taxes. This has been possible partly because of the return of better times, partly because "Mitch" discovered that numbers of wealthy Ontario families have been systematically cheating on the Province's stiff inheritance taxes for years and forced them to disgorge. The active Premier has abolished the amusement tax, extended pensions to the blind and allowances to mothers...
...said the Council, stuck by its figures. In many cases, however, church bodies had to take the word of local ministers as to how many parishioners were enrolled. Chief point in favor of the Christian Herald figures: church assessments and quotas, even when marked up to assure a decent return, are on a per capita basis. Thus, as one Lutheran reported: ''No pastor or secretary would dare or care to report a larger membership than actually is the fact, as this would increase the amount of money requested from the congregation. 'Dead men pay no bills...
...brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight, when darkness here. That be right?" "And it was right," says 58-year-old Mabel Dodge, with the pat finality of a romantic novel and a rejuvenated grandmother who claims that her heart has been missing beats ever since...
...Revere, Mass., Mrs. Paul Hahn, 61, is sitting in a trailer making candlewick bedspreads, waiting for her husband to return. She married him last Christmas. Last fortnight he unhooked the auto from the trailer, disappeared...