Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Reconstruction: Second Period", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall...
...Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty. General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai and the Southern Chinese who are trying to capture it with the idea that Britain has a real army in China, will soon have 30,000 men at or near Shanghai, and means to protect her interests permanently.* How could all this be better said to Chinese than by a parade of British...
Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...
...Significance: possible use of Rocky Mountain waterpower current in the Mississippi Valley, of Niagara's power in Manhattan, of Muscle Shoals by the southern hinterland; power for farmers; de-centralization of industry...
...other addition to the schedule is a game with Randolph Macon, to be played on April 19 in the course of the Southern trip. The only-previous same with the Southern institution was in 1906 and was won by Harvard...