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Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...
Foreign Affairs-Dr. C. C. Wu (son of onetime [1896] Chinese Minister to Washington, Wu Ting-fang, 1896-). Finance-Dr. Ku Yin-fang (onetime associate of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic"). Chiang, his "Cabinet" set up, hurried Northward with two armies, resuming the original Nationalist object of advancing to conquer Peking...
Born. To Mrs. & Rev. Tertius van Dyke, son of Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke (famed author, onetime Princeton professor, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg); a son, at Washington, Conn...
Married. George Philip ("Gyp") Wells, able biologist, son of famed Novelist H. G. Wells; to his father's Scottish secretary, Marjorie Stewart Craig; in London...
Married. Julian ("Pete") Street Jr., son of famed Author Julian Street; to Narcissa Vanderlip, daughter of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank (N. Y.); in Manhattan...