Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China's onetime northern capital Peking (now called "Peiping," meaning "Northern Peace") a total of 39 generals signed a circular telegram to field commanders, last week, denouncing as incompetent their commander-in-chief, Chinese President Chiang Kai-Shek...
...chaos were worst in the far southern city of Canton. Originally this was the bailiwick of President Chiang Kai-Shek, and from it he sallied, three years ago, at the head of the Nationalist Army which proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
After fire, filaments. Last week, General Electric Co. of New York let a million-peso contract ($450,000) for the immediate construction at Monterrey of the largest electric lamp bulb factory in Mexico...