Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ended the "state of siege" and "martial law" which has been maintained since the War in a ring of Rumanian territory 35 miles wide encircling "the country just inside the frontier. But, prudent, the Peasant Prime Minister established a new 10-mile wide zone of "martial law" along the Russo-Rumanian frontier, since most Rumanians fear attack by the Bolshevist "Red Army...
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis would never think of suggesting that President Calvin Coolidge ought to do his own marketing, or that Mrs. Coolidge ought to be the White House cook. But just such suggestions were made last week by China's Minister of War, the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
...During the Chinese Revolutionary War, recently won by the Chinese Nationalists, a Japanese interventionary force occupied Shantung ''to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists" and has remained in occupation ever since. With scant or manufactured provocation, this Japanese force attacked a Nationalist Army at Tsinan, the Capital of Shantung (TIME, May 14), thus seriously embarrassing for a time the eventually victorious. Nationalist offensive...
...Gang War.* No gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with...