Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shanghai, China, Feb. 1--Harverimplymp. Chiang Kaishek missing stop cannot locate Chinese capital stop urge send Huey immediately stop signed associated press Shanghai stop...
They forgot a few facts. Smiling Chiang's brother-in-law, spectacled Dr. T. V. Soong, is China's No. 1 banker and reputedly the only Finance Minister since the Revolution who has been able to get enough money together to run a central government. Smiling Chiang was still the most powerful military leader in China. The 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...
With a smile that was childlike and bland Chiang Kaishek, famed first President of the Nationalist Government, arrived in Nanking last week. A thousand chastened members of the Kuomintang party assembled to welcome him. Only six weeks ago these same men forced him to resign the Presidency. He left and his opponents shouted to the winds that they were heartily glad...
...secretaries to initiate, guide and counsel local movements. Principle was to build them up, then turn them over to local secretaries. Today 600 native leaders and 100 Americans carry on the work. Particularly proud of its Chinese record is Y. M. C. A. In the Cabinet of ex-President Chiang Kai-shek two years ago, six of the members were former Y-secretaries. Said Secretary Harmon last year: ''We regard this work as an invention in the realm of social and spiritual life just as much as the telephone and electric light is in the scientific life...
...this promise General Chiang stuck, disregarded all appeals from Nanking to come back and make some sort of compromise with the Cantonese statesmen who had forced him out (TIME, Dec. 28). They in Nanking last week dominated one of the most savagely bickering sessions of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ever held. Aloof like General Chiang stood his brother-in-law, Dr. T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 banker and reputedly the only Chinese who as Finance Minister can get enough money together to keep a Chinese Government going. In Shanghai last week...