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Word: kuomintang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the situation was delicate, Vice Consul Kao and his wife were not arrested for several days, sought temporary refuge in San Francisco's Chinatown. Then the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu, announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. Kao's Catastrophe | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...days later Marshal Feng was dismayed to learn that Canton had not been captured. President Chiang was sending two armies, each as large as the entire U. S. regular army, moving north and northwest against him. The Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) had met and expelled Marshal Feng for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Feng Steps Out | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...that I am back in China, I see the evils of Communism, and I have shifted my allegiance to the Kuomintang Party, and to the Three Principles of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen. These principles now suffice for me, and I think that after long searching I have found what most appeals to me as truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Feng's Faith | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Kuomintang (Nationalist) policy was one of destruction. The people were used as tools in a class struggle and misled by various fallacious theories. In order to place the party on a firm foundation, this policy of destruction must be changed to one of construction and the class struggle must be replaced by mutual help and co-operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Policy | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty to the cause of the workers. . . . But death does not release its prisoners." Editor Linson of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, news organ of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), wrote: "We are very sorry that such an able man as C. E. Ruthenberg leaves us so soon." Editor Olgin of the Hammer eulogized: "He looked like a rock. ... Of iron was his logic. Of iron was his will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Ruthenberg | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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