Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
...Hudson river to test the all-important ventilating system. The announced result: complete success (TIME, March 28). But last week, Chairman John F. O'Rourke of a special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation begged to differ. He announced that the committee had given "serious study and conference to this question." "We believe," he added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest . . . further tests." Autoists crowding impatiently at the crawling ferries must settle down...
...Cabinet, mostly composed of quick-trigger army officers, assembled with Dictator-Premier Ibanez and despatched a verbal ultimatum to the President. President Figueroa had no option but to issue a proclamation as follows: "Serious personal motives compel me to absent myself from my constitutional duties for a period of two months. During this time the Minister of the Interior (Premier Ibanez) will rep)ace me in the Presidency with the title of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 66 of the Political Constitution of the State...
...newspapermen noted that President Hoover would go to Federal Court there. He has just filed suit against the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. and the managers of the late Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition. He claims that they have done him out of the Grand Prize for carpet cleaning machines by "a serious error which has greatly prejudiced the Hoover...
Though levity on the subject of Sacco and Vanzetti may be out of place, the fall from grace of Boston's most respected newspaper has its serious elements. To many dear old ladies, the Transcript's using a dishonest headline will appear as a greater calamity than the miscarriage of justice in Massachusets. Even Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden would hardly have looked upon such an event without perturbation...