Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ponts and other moneyed aristocrats of Wilmington, Del., were honored not long ago to entertain young Baron George Exter Friedrich von Krupp, heir apparent to the vast Krupp works at Essen. The Baron was no mustachioed warlord but, on the contrary, save for his short-clipped blond hair and "der's" for "the's," differed little in mien from a U. S. college undergraduate. He conversed readily, fluently; talked of sport, history, politics; reminisced modestly of his grandfather; spoke of his mother, famed and able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh...
Events in China which have been cloaked in obscurity for some months took on an intelligible significance last week. Two happenings of major interest: 1) the Nine-Power Customs Conference* assembled at Peking, seat of the present weak Chinese National Government; 2) the great warlord, or "Super-Tuchun," Wu Pei-fu, emerged from an enforced retirement and appeared at Hankow as "Commander-in-Chief of the Central Provinces"-an alliance which he has apparently patched up by intrigue and which he claims leagues about him "14 of China's 18 provinces...
...Military Situation. Super-Tuchun Wu, on resurrecting his power, has already driven his old enemy, Super-Tuchun Chang, "Manchurian Warlord," out of the positions which the latter has held for months at and near Shanghai. The actual capture of Shanghai was accomplished last week by General Sun Chuan-Fang, acting for Super-Tuchun...
...astounding and terrifying revelation that the salary of the warlord Trotsky is 2,800,000,000 rubles monthly...