Word: chen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racial traitor in this oblique Japanese sense was Chinese General Shang Chen, sent to Tientsin last week to replace dismissed General Yu. General Shang popped around at once to pay a "courtesy call" on Tientsin's Japanese garrison commander. Lieut.-General Yoshijiro Umezu who hospitably opened bottle after bottle of the best champagne, put on a drinking bout with lusty toasts "to amity...
...earn, scrimp, save and toilsomely amass the Chinese equivalent of seven U. S. dollars may take an industrious Shanghai coolie seven years. Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple...
...Kuei Chen, who was born in Shanghai, educated at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins, and is now Eli Lilly & Co.'s director of pharmacological research, last week celebrated a new triumph. In the past he showed that the Chinese shrub Ma Huang was good, ancient medicine because the ephedrine which it contains relieves congestion in cold-ridden noses and stimulates poky hearts. He showed that toad venom was good, ancient medicine because it contains unusual concentrations of cholesterol, ergosterol, bufagin, bufotoxin and bufotenine...
Last week the able Chinese took his able wife and collaborator, Dr. Amy S. H. Ling Chen, to Brooklyn to announce the discovery of thevetin, a new heart stimulant which the Chens isolated from the poisonous bestill nut of Hawaii...
...those on the Kuomintang, and the attempted Communist Revolutions in China between 1927 and 1930. The figure of Borodin looms large as the greatest man, to Sheean's mind, in the whole decade, Lenin excepted. Then there are Mme. Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the Chinese hero, Eugene Chen, and the fiery, red-haired Rayna Prohme, all of whom Sheean knew with varying degrees of intimacy. Their failure to put through the revolution Sheean ascribes to the strength of foreign imperialism, British and American in particular...