Word: channings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor, Ezekiel Cobb comports himself like a combination of Fiorello La Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have...
When Coach Benny Lorn of San Francisco's Chinese football team counted noses before the game with the city's Japanese team at Kezar Stadium last week, twelve players were missing, including Charley Chan, onetime star of Commerce High School. The absentees were less afraid of their opponents, or the possibility of the game's ending in a riot as it did the last time they played in 1930, than they were of their parents. Most Chinese families had forbidden their sons to play with the Japanese boys since matters had gone so far in Manchuria...
...arrest of U. S.-born Bert Hall ("General Chan"), onetime instructor to the air forces of China's Nanking and Canton Governments, for swindling a Chinese general out of $10,000 (Mexican) intended as payment for German pistols which never were delivered (TIME, Oct. 30): sentence of two and one-half years to be served in a U. S. penitentiary, imposed by a U. S. extraterritorial court in Shanghai...
...further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed a $10,000 check intended as payment for German pistols that were never delivered. Since U. S. citizens enjoy extraterritorial rights in China, the arrest was not made until the U. S. consul had formally charged General Chan Hall with "engaging in illegal import of firearms...
Keeper of the Keys (adapted by Valentine Davies; Sigourney Thayer producer). This vehicle for the late Earl Derr Biggers' famed Detective Charlie Chan largely goes to prove that the wily inspector and his ponderous Chinese proverbs are better off on the screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party...