Word: channings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the truce was far from stopping gunfire in China. No sooner did the terms leak out than Chinese war lords were snapping at each other like angry clogs. At Hsuanhuafu, on the Peiping-Kalgan Railway, General Feng Chan-hai (of the "Big Sword" volunteers), leading his Japan-battered troops down to Peiping, met General Fang Chen-wu and his private army going up to Kalgan. The two forces clashed. General Fang hoping to seize control of North China. Meantime the able Cantonese 19th Route Army was still making its way slowly north with the rumors gaining daily strength that...
...special Moscow-Berlin express, supplied by the Soviet Government, piled some 60 Chinese-men, women, children, soldiers, bodyguards and generals. In the centre of the group was that irrepressible jack-in-the-box, droop-whiskered General Ma Chan-shan. Bland General Ma was acclaimed "China's Hero" year and a half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before...
Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist...
CELEBRATED CASES OF CHARLIE CHAN -Earl Derr Biggers-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). The clever Chinese rides this omnibus through Cases One to Five...
...Louis, Ill.; R. C. Bacon, Quincy, Mass.; D. M. Bates, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; G. G. Benedict, Providence, R. I.; B. K. Blossom, Marion, Ind.; J. W. Boldyreff, Battle Creek, Mich.; J. R. Brewster, Andover, Mass.; John Butler, Wakefield, Mass.; G. K. Chalmers, So. Hadley, Mass.; M. L. Chan, Tsingtao, China; Tsung-Yuang Chang, Anhin, China; Isiah Chase, West Roxbury, Mass.; D. L. Cherry, Watsonville, Cal.; F. H. Clark, Hyde Park, Mass.; R. E. Dees, Crystal Springs, Miss.; J. H. Denison, Jr., New York, N.Y.; A. I. Dixon, Reading, Mass.; W. E. Dodd, Jr., Chicago, Ill; M. A. Dolliver, Manset...