Word: chen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China's Dictator Chiang Kai-shek resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law (1 T. V. Soong, 2 Wu Pei-fu, 3 H. H. Kung, 4 Chang Hsueh-liang, 5 Eugene Chen...
...mutinying to fight against Japan. Killed by other Manchukuoan mutineers was the Japanese-controlled General Liu Kwei-tang. Later in the week came word that the entire Second Division of the Manchukuoan Army led by its Commander Yin Pao-san, and Chief of Staff Chu Chen-jua, had gone over to the Chinese side. Many other Manchukuoans did not bother to declare for the Nanking Government, but reverted to simple banditry...
...possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct appointment from Generalissimo Chiang. For five years Shanghai's mayor was suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that Mayor Wu might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung and gave this rich...
...Chinese ear question was put to the Customs Bureau by Eli Lilly & Co., which stated that it had arranged to buy in China three pairs of ears needed in its Indianapolis laboratories in connection with some experiments in plastic surgery by Shanghai-born Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Lilly's famed director of pharmacological research. When newshawks sought out Lilly's Dr. Chen, all he would say was that he was working on a hunch "which may or may not prove successful...
...Chinese generals left, and the Government bustled about getting off troop trains in the general direction of Sian. Ensuing dispatches grossly contradicted each other. In one of these the Young Marshal's friends succeeded in kidnapping the Generalissimo's wife and assassinated his trusted henchman General Chen Ta-chun...