Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai - beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights...
...Cathay? an incident occurred which gave rise to the "joke" in the London club. A British plane made a forced landing on Chinese territory?on a golf course just outside Shanghai, and a Royal Air Force detachment was sent to salvage the machine. Chinese authorities protested, kept the wings...
...British, long deaf to Nationalist complaints against their joyriding over Chinese territory, forthwith cut the railroad line between Shanghai, Hangchow and Ningpo, thus halting the Nationalist retreat from the oncoming Northern army...
First in war, first in peace, Bishop Brent had had experience in handling international conferences, as president of opium parleys at Shanghai (1909) and The Hague (1911). He declined the bishoprics of Washington, D. C., and New Jersey, to preserve for his world ministry the freedom of action he enjoys at Buffalo, N. Y. When his world ministry reached its peak this month, he was not content merely to preside over the hundreds of churchmen he had brought together, but went with them into their councils; explained, directed, adjusted and dictated daily despatches on their progress to the New York...
What, people wondered, would the great Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cable system, with its present monopoly of transpacific wire communication, do about the bigger & better Pacific cable, announced in project last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 15) by the Western Union Co.? The Commercial cable from San Francisco, via Honolulu to Shanghai can handle only 100 letters per minute. The proposed Western Union cable will carry 2,500 letters per minute. But it did not seem likely that Commercial would install improved equipment over the 9,100-mile route to meet its competitor. To do so would cost Commercial perhaps 16 millions...