Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After betraying Wu and seizing Peking (see p. 17) the Christian War Lord took a grave step. Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor...
...Civil War continued War Lord Feng was driven from Peking and retired to his present famed war base at Kalgan, an impregnable stronghold 100 miles north of Peking. There Mr. and Mrs. Feng (she a onetime Y. W. C. A. worker), their several scampering children and a Swiss governess were "at home," until the restive Christian War Lord moved down into central China for the campaign now victoriously completed...
...TIME, March 5, referred to Van Lear Black as the British born "owner of the Baltimore Sun papers, purser of a blockade-running munitions freighter during the great submarine war, navigator by sea and air." Actually he cannot himself navigate a ship or plane; has never been officially a purser; and is the U. S.-born chairman of the board of the A. S. Abell Co., publishers of the Baltimore Sun, the principal stockholders of which are Charles S. Abell, Harry C. Black, Van Lear Black, Joseph A. Blondell, Paul Patterson...
Chinamen in Boston, fired by the example of Patriot King, are rushing to Muller Field, newly opened airport. Nine young Nationalists have arranged for flying lessons. Burr Leyson, War pilot who taught Chinaman King, will sail in September to organize a Chinese air force...
Officials proving uncommunicative, it was permissible to conjecture as to the motive behind the unexpected move. The German iron and steel industry, it was remembered, has made a startling recovery since the War, has approached pre-War production levels. Pig iron production, which fell from 1,374,400 tonsf in 1913 to 404,700 in 1923, rallied to about 1,100,000 in 1927. Ingots and castings production in the same years dropped from 1,445,700 to 517,000, recovered to more than 1,300,000. Exports fell to 110,000,† rose in March...