Word: son
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile, at least, both the Northwest and Szechuan would be valiantly...
...Boss. The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys...
...Furthermore, Robeson told reporters: "Everything I said during my tour of Europe was distorted by ... American press agencies. I prefer to give what I have to say to papers like the Daily Worker." Later in the week, still pestered by newsmen at the wedding of his son, Paul Jr., to Marilyn Greenberg, a white Cornell classmate, Baritone Robeson denounced the U.S. press once more: "I have the greatest contempt for the democratic press, and there is something within me which keeps me from breaking your cameras over your heads." Besides, he added angrily, "this marriage would not have caused...
...archaic manner; but I wasn't doing it on purpose, but only because I couldn't carve in any other way." Next came a commission to carve Prospero and Ariel for London's Broadcasting House. Gill transformed them into God the Father and God the Son. Finally he was asked to do a 55-ft. frieze for the League of Nations council hall at Geneva. Gill suggested "The Turning Out of the Money Changers" as an appropriate theme. When the idea was turned down as being "too Christian," he compromised on a representation of God and Adam...
Only about 4% of Gilcrease's huge art collection was on display. The rest, saved for future shows, included the art of 45 Indian tribes, dating back to 300 A.D., along with 62,000 books, letters and manuscripts. Among the letters was one from Christopher Columbus' son, Diego, to Charles I of Spain. Another, written by General George Custer, ends: "You will next hear from me . . . not from the plains of Philippi . . . but from those of Dakota, the home of S.B." The initials stood for Custer's Sioux conqueror, Sitting Bull...