Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of basic world importance which took place last week occurred in China. It was as if Hitler had been kidnapped by Goring or Stalin by Voroshilov. In fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang...
...China, nothing is ever exactly what it seems except an assassination, and the kidnapping of the greatest man in Eastern Asia, unless it should be followed by his assassination, lacked any quality of finality. It was considered by nearly all Chinese, when the staggering news broke, as open to the highly probable suspicion that the Premier of China had had himself kidnapped from the noblest of motives...
...case, the Young Marshal had rocked Eastern Asia by starting last week either a war between China and Japan or a much bigger civil war than has raged in China for some years. The famed "Christian Marshal," Feng Yu-hsiang, who ranks as China's most benevolent and adroit double-crosser, could hardly wait to get in on whatever was taking place at Sian. "I will fly thither at once," roared the Christian Marshal, "and offer myself as a hostage to the Young Marshal for the safety of the Generalissimo...
...Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, Assistant Curater of Mammals of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the project marks the first time that a group of qualified primate specialists has ever visited Asia for intensive cooperative research on gibbons, orangutans, and other important sub-human primates...
...York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop...