Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died (1925), Chiang Kai-shek became the outstanding Nationalist leader, though still little known in the Occident. He led the greatest conquering army which China hao known in the present century up from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze river, including the present Nationalist Capital, Hankow (TIME, Oct. 18). Thence he has proceeded to capture all the great cities south of the lower Yangtze, completing his conquest of the Southern half of China by taking Shanghai (TIME, March...
...great barbaric war lord of Manchuria and North China, Chang Tso-lin, remained last week the only Chinese still potent enough perhaps to stem the conquering Nationalists their present line along the Yangtze River and .keep them from overrunning North" China as they have South China...
...capture Peking. Will Chang fight Chiang? Great battles between them seemed inevitable last week, but it was probable that their secret agents were even then chaffering and hornswoggling in an effort to patch up terms whereby the Nationalists may be confirmed as masters of all China below the Yangtze river, with Chang Tso-lin remaining supreme north of the Yangtze...
...population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty cotton acres; the giggling creek, Blue Brook, and the threatening, dreamy big river with a sandy island and soaring fish hawks. The figures moving everywhere are dominated by a blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon him by a God in whom he took small stock. Gangrene eats...
Professor Munro's contribution is entitled "The Money Power in politics" and is a defense of that supposedly pernicious influence. "Revisiting a River, A Recipe for Happiness" and essay, by Professor Perry is the third of the articles...