Word: wu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lect, Hall Government 18a Alberson-Greene Sever 20 Hamamoto-Wong Sever 23 Greek G II Sever 26 History 63 Harvard 2 History 66 Emerson D History of Religions 5 Sever 6 Latin B III Sever 18 Mathematics 12a Harvard 2 Philosophy 3b Adams-Rhine Emerson A Rosinger-Wu Emerson D Physics C New Lect, Hall Physics 3a Emerson D Social Ethics 8 Emerson...
That at Astoria, L. I., two Chinamen-Wei Yoh Wu and Pin Ling Shen-were discovered by the press. They had been studying in the U. S. for several years and were about ready to go back to China to set on foot there a radio industry which might quickly swell to the enormous proportions achieved in occidental countries...
...American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
...addition the Legation must pay Wu $25 per car, and the village where this general was quartered demanded $1.80 per car additional 'squeeze...
...When I left China I was reliably informed that Wu Pei-fu [since defeated and eclipsed] was collecting from the Peking-Hankow Railroad $1,000,000 per month. The total earnings of the road are $1,500,000 and the payroll $650,000 per month. It is obvious the employes cannot be paid-and they had not been for several months. Another dominant War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, is receiving the revenue of the Peking-Mukden Railroad...