Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan Got the Atom. Chen Yi rounded up scores of "collaborators" while his pooh-bahs made themselves snug. Last week "Down with the Governor!" posters appeared all over the island. In two towns, hungry natives burned sugar godowns. Formosans greeted the few visiting Americans with: "You were kind to the Japanese, you dropped the atom on them. You dropped the Chinese...
...Chinese Governor Chen Yi found the raid-battered Formosans docile. He promptly put his nephew in charge of the Taiwan Co., which bought coal at 200 yen a ton and sold it at 4,000. Black-market gold sold at 300,000 Chinese dollars an ounce, against $180,000 in Shanghai. Even in fertile Formosa, mass starvation threatened...
Frederick Wildes Adams, Jr., Irwin Monroe Arias, Walter Robert Beer, Jr., Francis Robert Buckley, Allan Churchill Butler, George Chi-Ming Chen, Edward Cranch Eliot, Carmine Mario Fasano, George Harry Foote, Irwin Bertram Green, Crosby Hitchcock, Thomas Joseph Hughes, Jr., Robert Leon Jenkins, Robert Henry Lautz, David Delamater Mackintosh, George Seward Might, Arnold Whitcomb Morse, James Roland Patterson, Jr., James Stenius Roberts, Ralph Dudley Sanderson, Ralph Henry Vogel, Richard Saltonstall West, William Fryer Wicks, Theodore Henry Woggon, James Joshua Zimmerman...
...Chen's sentence capped a career at ironic variance with the literal translation of his name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...
Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet. Wang Ching-wei's shrewd, fat, diabetic, bad-tempered widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...