Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William S. Sims, Horace Taft...
When General Chiang Kai-shek marched up from Canton through the centre of China four years ago to capture Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...
...Sows In Canton, Ill., Lonnie Foote, 2, liked to play with little pigs, crawled through a fence into a field where twelve sows and their litters were kept. His body was found, arms severed, partially devoured...
...Chinese Lowestoft porcelain was never made in Lowestoft, England. It is 18th & 19th Century Chinese porcelain turned principally on upper Kiang Si province, decorated in Canton by Chinese workmen with coats of arms, religious symbols, ships and other designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...
Sued for Divorce. Burleigh A. Grimes, for 15 years a big league baseball pitcher, crack spitballer of the St. Louis Cardinals (National League champions); by Mrs. Florence Ruth Grimes; at Canton, Ohio. Charge: he was cruel, gossiped, wrote to other women. Last December Grimes unsuccessfully sued Mrs. Grimes for divorce. He alleged she gossiped, made him unpopular with the team...