Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
Last week Mrs. Thomas fondly embraced her white-collared son, proudly watched while he extended to Privy Seal Jim an official welcome in the name of the Canadian National Railways...
Bearded Afghans moved mum as ghosts about Kabul last week, afraid of losing their ears, anxious not to be blown into bloody fragments from a cannon mouth. Their bandit-king, fierce, white-toothed, grinning Habibullah Khan, was in one of his wild rages. For weeks he has been stubbornly defending Kabul against the potent Nadir Khan, another ruthless seeker of the crown lost last winter by deposed King Amanullah, who is now in bitter exile in Italy (TIME, July 15). Last week Habibullah heard that one of his favorite generals had just been captured by the Nadir Khan. Cringing...
During 1917-20, when the young Soviet Union was fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Blücher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Blücher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...
Swift to act, Comrade Blucher established his military headquarters at Novosibirsk. 1,500 miles from the Manchurian frontier, surveyed the situation. Soon he announced that the Red Russian positions were being constantly harassed by White Russian (ex-Tsarist) mercenary troops in the pay of the Chinese. Soon subordinate commanders on the Soviet front received this telegram from their new Generalissimo: YOU ARE DIRECTED TO EXTERMINATE ALL WHITE RUSSIAN FORCES WHICH ARE MENACING OUR LINES...