Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personnel within the party or Cabinet or both, which would transfer the Government's center of gravity a foot or two toward the true democrats. But after the session the same group had the same firm grip on the party: Communist-hating War Minister Ho Ying-chin; the Chen brothers, leaders of the notoriously reactionary CC clique; Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
After three days in outlying Chinese cities, Willkie arrived at Chungking's suburban airport in a Douglas piloted by Baltimore-born Moon Chen, first man to complete a flight across the Himalayas. A welcoming crowd of 10,000 was headed by Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, U.S. Ambassador Clarence Edward Gauss and gallant Lieut. General Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell...
...determined Chinese financier K.P. Chen stuck a feather in his cap last week. From Chungking he wired Manhattan's Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan smack on the tung-oil barrel head-nearly two years before the last installment on the loan...
...Treasury officials that China could do business even when the Japs controlled its coast. When he borrowed the money in 1938, no political loans were possible. Democracy was not then counted a good security in Washington; but tung oil-essential in high-grade paints and varnishes-would do. So Chen founded Universal Trading Corp. in Manhattan to manage tung-oil sales, earmarking one-half the proceeds to pay the debt. He then organized Foo Shing Trading Corp. in China to gather and ship the oil, went home to direct...
...slowly pressed by Japanese forces, CNAC established an emergency service from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the lee of the Kowloon hills (see cut, p. 18), While bombs and artillery shells rained down on the field, U.S. and Chinese pilots loaded Daddy Kung, Madame Sun, Banker Chen and 272 other passengers into shuttling planes, crossed the Japanese lines, set them down safely 200 miles inland. By the time the airport became too hot, they had rescued the entire staff of the air company and were ready to carry on from new headquarters...