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...party doctrinaire. While most of his fellow commanders are of peasant stock, Lin comes from China's bourgeoisie; his family ran a small textile mill in Hupei province. Lin got his early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors was Chiang Kaishek. Between 1947 and 1949, Lin led his new Manchurian army southward to crush Chiang's forces at Mukden, Peking and Tientsin...
...four years after World War II, Epler and Putnam found, the seven schools gave out 244 honorary degreesa 74% increase over their average yearly rate in the 1920s. Nearly half the degrees went to scholars, scientists and educators. Businessmen, who seldom if ever got degrees before the Civil War, now get a modest 8%. Generals and admirals (10%) have had the biggest postwar boom. Clergymen are slipping; a century ago they made up 45% of the honoris causa list, after World...
...editor of the Smart Set and the American Mercury. Mencken wrote like a reckless revolutionary, but he was Tory to the core. His home life was as innocent as the average minister's, but he flayed the ministers, and the Bohemians claimed him as their own. In the 1920s, a word of praise from Mencken became a priceless treasure. When, as a joke, he suggested various politicians for the presidency, minor booms resulted. When he said some kind words about Henry Ford, they were quoted in the full-page ads that blared the arrival of the model...
...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...Republic of Formosa" which the Japanese defeated in three weeks. The aborigines were harder to handle. To isolate the aborigines up in the mountains, the Japanese built what they called the Savage Guard Line, 360 miles of barbed wire fence, 230 miles of which were electrified in the 1920s. Along the Guard Line the Japanese maintained a force of 5,000 men who, as late as 1930, were besieging the aborigines with field guns, land mines and bombing planes...