Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
...lone rush by Benjamin Beale '34 early in the first frame resulted in the opening score of the evening, and left Harvard out in front at the end of the period, 1-0. Tech came back in the second with a power play to draw Kenneth C. Mittell '34 out of the goal long enough for Goodwin, Engineer right winger, to slip the puck into...
...suddenly summoned all his generals and advisers to a conference at Nanchang, his field headquarters in Kiangsi facing the Soviet Sore Spots. It was possible, declared the Generalissimo, that he might have to place the entire anti-Red campaign in the hands of his subordinate General Liu Tze and rush off to battle in a zone of still greater danger. Ceremoniously, though they all knew that the Generalissimo had made up his mind where he was going, the Council of Generals reviewed the centres of revolt...
...full strength by new recruits, will fight under General Tsai. More important, the new Fukien Government has as its "brains" that amazing man of South Chinese politics, Eugene Chen. It was he who provided the potential menace to Nanking's authority, he who caused Chiang to rush from his Council of Generals and mobilize his best troops to be led by himself against Fukien...
...bootleggers. There were realtors, hairdressers and elevator boys, all wild-eyed over their ''slices" in this or that liquor syndicate. In London and Glasgow, astute liquor brokers were selling "brands ' on which the printer's ink was still wet. All was hurly-burly in the rush for retail, wholesale and importing licenses and quotas. Broken Axles. Under the eyes of a platoon of U. S. revenue agents, a caravan of 100 trucks clattered through the still streets of Philadelphia one night last week, shuttling 50,000 cases of gin across the river to Camden...