Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...land of China is so troubled and war-torn that only one prominent Occidental is known to have traveled there extensively within the present year. This gentleman is U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. He completed last week a tour which his influence and his wealth have enabled him to push far into the interior. Moreover, Mr. Bingham has visited and talked with all the principal Chinese leaders at the three chief seats of Chinese government: Peking, Nanking, Hankow. When the Senator emerged at Shanghai last week his mind held a panoramic picture of China in which each element...
...that he was an intimate of onetime (1917 & 1925) French Premiers Paul Painlevé and (1924-25 & 1926) Edouard Herriot, with whom in 1921 he helped organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish a policy of democratic post-War reconstruction. M. Rist has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France for only the past year. He is one of Europe's most profound economists...
...Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, with a mind as clear-thinking as a calculating machine, is one of the constructive geniuses of post-War Germany. Born in 1877 he was a partner in the Darmstadter-und-National bank until 1923, worked with the Reich Currency Commission that set up the present gold mark standard in Germany, cooperated with the (Charles Gates) Dawes Committee on German reparations. He has been president of the Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German...
...late Victorian era by his disgraceful behavior. Many a stein of beer he quaffed in scandalous company. Many an adventure he enjoyed because no proper person would. Slyly he defended the social standing of young ladies with bodies like "white satin stoves." He exulted in his holy war on behalf of Chopin. He inspired the admiration, even the imitation, of the religiously individualistic H. L. Mencken...
...Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic Civil War veteran; and the one proposal of her lifetime from the genteel but seedy "young master" of her final situation, would be ludicrous, were not Alma's extreme case handled with purpose of extreme purity...