Word: li
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chang appointed as his peace emissary businesslike Mr. Li Shao-Kung, who was made general manager of the Chinese Eastern last July after the ousting of Soviet Manager Boris Emshanov. At no small personal risk, Mr. Li set out eastward from Harbin on his disputed railway last week, heading for Pogranichnaya, whence he would travel 500 miles north in remotest Siberia to meet the Soviet plenipotentiaries at Kobaronsk...
...Morris II. These two teams, as winners in their respective leagues, will meet in a championship deciding game Tuesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Team Won Lost Tie Pts. League "A" Morris II 6 0 0 12 McCullouch I 4 1 1 9 Hamilton LI 2 2 0 4 Chase I 1 3 0 2 Chase III 0 1 1 1 Gallatin II 0 3 0 0 Gallatin III 0 3 0 0 League "B" Chase II 6 0 0 12 Gallatin IV 4 1 1 9 Stapler's Club 3 1 2 8 McCullouch...
...reputable Dean Wu Chung-chieh of the department of Education at Minkuo University, China, last week announced that he had found recorded in Imperial Chinese chronicles dated 1777 the fact that one Li Ching-yung had been imperially honored for being 100 years old, that 1877 annals reported the same Li Ching-yung celebrating his sooth anniversary, that the same ancient is now 252 years old and is still living in Kai-shen, Szechwan Province...
...edited by Communist Thomas P. Chan, replied by flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred to Li Chi Ming, wife of Nationalist Editor Chen Po, as a "dew wife...
...York Graphic and asked to speak to its publisher and his good friend, Bernarr Macfadden. Publisher Macfadden was not there, so the caller said to Editor M. H. Weyrauch: "This is my vacation and I'd like to be a reporter so I can see what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told him his salary would be that of a "cub" and then announced in large headlines to Graphic readers: "Ex-Congressman on Graphic staff." With his eye also on publicity...