Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this occasion His Majesty George V...
...Feng v. Li. The attack launched by Super-Tuchun Feng, "The Christian Protector of Peking," upon General Li Ching-ling, the Civil Governor of Chihle (TiME, Dec. 21), continued and showed signs of developing into a notable engagement. Because of this fracas Peking was completely cut off from railroad communication with the seacoast, since the embattled forces blew up numerous bridges on the Peking-Tientsin railway...
Died. Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 83, in London. He was successively Physician in Ordinary to Their Majesties Victoria, Edward VII, and George V, first Baron Powell, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, perhaps the greatest English specialist in diseases of the heart and lungs, famed champion of the dietetic properties of suet pudding...
...spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm of George V...
Robert A. Gardner (Mitchell, Hutchins & Co., Chicago) and George V. Rotan (Newhaus & Co., Houston), in an exhibition golf match against Walter Hagen and Gilbert Nichols (trick-shot artist), beat them...