Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charitarian Hull House; received and was photographed with a delegation of the National Council of Catholic Women; agreed to open the loth Olympic Games at Los Angeles, July 30, which he may take in his stride while campaigning in the West for a second term; sent greetings to President Chiang Kaishek of Republican China on the latter's 20th birthday; sat long with his Cabinet discussing Japan's inroads upon Chinese terrain...
Safety Valves. To keep superpatriotic students out of mischief, Nanking President Chiang Kai-shek organized "student battalions" last week, ostensibly for war with Japan. But numerous students were too canny to join, doubted the President's will to war. Three thousand students, most of them with little or no money, massed in Nanking, vowed that they would stay there (and perhaps starve) until the Government takes steps to avenge "China's honor...
Hearing that another entire trainload of students were about to leave Shanghai, President Chiang wired orders that the train must not leave, whereat the students threatened to wreck the station. After furious wrangling Shanghai railroad officials pretended to yield. Students cheered as their train chuffed out of Shanghai station, raged when it was shunted onto a sidetrack at Chinkiang, 50 miles from Nanking, and left there by an engine which absconded before the students could lynch the fireman and engineer...
...Colonel the President offered China's brand new Aviation Medal, never before conferred. Colonel Lindbergh agreed to accept his medal publicly from President Chiang at 10 a.m. next...
Next day Colonel Lindbergh would make another flight, more daring. To gain space he would leave Mrs. Lindbergh in Nanking, would carry two doctors and medical supplies to flood-stricken areas near the Grand Canal. "Wonderful!" cried First Lady Meiling. Said President Chiang, "Colonel Lindbergh, your services are invaluable...