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...Shortly afterwards Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, another great liberal, published a similar book. With the outbreak of the revolution of 1911, his work spread among the uprising student class. His general proved a traitor to the cause and established himself as ruler. Anarchy followed. Had he built up a strong government for the people, one years of turmoil in China would have been avoided...
...Council to fill the vacancy caused by the death last August of C. Chauncey Stillman '98, of New York. Bolton, up to the beginning of the War, was associated with the Bourne. Fuller Company of Cleveland, in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. At the outbreak of the War, he went to Washington, first as secretary of the General Munitions Board, later of the War Industries Board, and subsequently as a member of the General Staff in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of Staff. In 1923, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate where...
...visiting lecturer has spoken on subjects of social reform, not only in this country, but also in Europe, and one of his speaking tours carried him around the world. During the World War he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, was sent there on the American Red Cross Commission. In 1917 he succeeded Colonel W. B. Thompson as commander of the relief forces...
...outbreak of the organized general strike was the gravest domestic event in my lifetime. If it had succeeded Parliamentary Government would have been at an end. It was an action of mine which made this a ground of controversy in the Liberal ranks and it was with as much distress as surprise that I found that my public declarations were met with a challenge from a quarter [the Lloyd Georgians] which it was impossible for me to disregard...
...from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang, and last week he meted out to the starvation-worn Wuchangese the quixotic terms of a typically Chinese peace...