Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canton Municipality, it was alleged, paid during the past eight months $25,800,000 for the maintenance of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's army...
...conference of the Kuomingtang (Sun Yat-Sen's Party), it was proposed that foreign concessions be abolished and that the Boxer indemnity be returned from all countries and utilized for development of education in China. Sun Yat-Sen's Party is that which keeps him in power at Canton, province of Kwang-Tung. Politically it is not adverse to a central government at Peking, but is violently opposed to the present Government, charging that President Tsao-Kun fraudulently manipulated the last elections (TIME...
Clarence C. Dill, junior U. S. Sen-tor from Washington: "I suggested a possible name for the continent which the Shenandoah is expected to explore on her projected trip to the North Pole. Said I: 'Let us call it Coolidgeland, because it is so cold and silent...
...there are only 60 or 70 members at Shanghai who refuse to join in the Parliament. These protesting members believe that Li Yuan Hung was deposed illegally in 1917 and will not recognize Kun Tsao. Mr. Chen explained that there was also another government under Sun Yat-Sen in the extreme southern provinces which is virtually independent...
...Sen, head of the Canton Government in South China, took a new lease of life. Recently he was reported on the point of disastrous defeat at the hands of General Chen Chiung-Ming's army; but as that force peremptorily demanded their back pay, and as General Chen was not in a position to accede to their imperious wishes, the army deserted and the General fled to Peking, whence he had come, and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was left a virtual victor on the field of battle...