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...provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install as Governor his own man, stocky General Chang Chun...
Hans Heyman 3G, President; Fred Chang 3G, Vice-President; Robert Rennie 3G, Treasure; Jack Baldwin '43, Secretary; Edward Mysliwy '43, Chairman of the Social Committee; and Norman Myer '43, head of the Committee on Membership and Publicity...
...shek in particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since his mother is buried there...
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There have been 13 sets of Siamese twins known to medical history. The original "Siamese" were Chang and Eng (really Chinese), born in Siam in 1811. They were taken out of Siam by a British merchant, exhibited by Circusman Barnum. After accumulating a small fortune, they married two sisters, took the name Bunker, settled down on a North Carolina farm, where they lived happily...