Word: chang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart young War Lord who has joined the Nationalists is "Chang Jr.," son of the late, barbaric Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, he who reclined elegantly with one or more of his wives on a couch of tiger skins while an executioner, for his amusement, chopped off a head? any head would...
...Chang Jr., despatches said last week, has now bought himself a trimotored Ford plane, commutes in it between Mukden, his inherited Capital of Manchuria, and Peiping (once Peking). At Peiping his official style is "His Excellency Chang Hsueh-liang, vice Commander of the Army & Navy with Jurisdiction over Four Provinces & Governor of Manchuria...
Rango (Paramount). Once more a good job has been done with jungle life. This time the scene is Sumatra and the photography by Ernest Schoedsack, who helped to make Chang. Though it is nontalking except for occasional voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper scenario. An old Sumatran hunter and his son have gone into the interior to rid the country of tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable...
...result of the "little generals' " conference young Chang, who inherited Manchuria and $10,000,000 from his famed, barbaric father Old Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928) set himself up last week in Peiping (once Peking), prepared to reside there permanently as Governor of the North. If one of his subordinates in Manchuria does not seize that rich land and ruin Marshal Chang, he will be most lucky...
...General Chang Chi-tsan, Commander of the deserting Eighteenth, was held by his captors for $2,000,000 (Mex.) ransom. Appalled, the President of China despatched four army divisions to Red, rebellious Kiangsi...