Word: chen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boycott. In Shanghai, Japanese Consul General Kuramatsu Murai made a few provocatively dangerous threats of his own in a formal protest to Chinese Mayor Wu Teh-chen against the resurgence of anti-Japanese boycott societies such as the Purified Heart & Hot Blood Corps for the Extermination of Traitors...
Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
...force the Chinese Mayor, General Wu Teh-chen and other officials to call off the boycott Japan had two other weapons. Though few U. S. citizens realize it, China has a merchant marine. Japan threatened last week to close the port of Shanghai to all Chinese vessels. One of the city's greatest tycoons is grizzled, wily old Yu Ya-ching, ex-President of the Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Councilor, Managing Director of the Sanpeh Steam Navigation Co., second largest Chinese steamship company, and generally known as "The Big Boss of Shanghai." He is rumored...
...temporary government under pudgy Cantonese "Premier" Dr. Sun Fo could get nowhere. It was forced to beg Chiang Kai-shek to return. That he did last week as acknowledged head of the Chinese Army. Next move was the resignation of Sun Fo. He took with him Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, received promises of support from General Shen Ming-shu, commander of the troops stationed in Shanghai. Sneered Chen: "The conference at Nanking reminds one of a people facing conquest. Chiang Kai-shek is ready to tell Japan to go as far as she likes." But General Chiang, with his Cantonese...
...born at Foochow, aged 67, prominent in China's revolutionary struggles and a onetime resident of California. Premier Sun, who thus unexpectedly emerged as the directive head of a new kind of Chinese Cabinet, was expected to have as his Minister of Foreign Affairs famed Eugene Chen, a Cantonese leader close to Moscow, with ideas about making peace with Japan (TIME, Nov. 2). This choice, however, was not made definite last week and the new Government was strongly urged to "fight Japan" by one of China's doughtiest war lords, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang who offered to swing...