Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just an effort on the part of Shanghai to advance on the trail of progress blazed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek," Mayor Wu told friends who overwhelmed him with congratulations. "The first Wednesday in every month from now on I will conduct such marriages. The thing has taken hold at once. Already 31 couples have applied for next month. It is all part of Generalissimo Chiang's great 'New Life' movement to regenerate China...
...When I arrived in the Southwest," said General Doihara, "I found a strong disposition on the part of Chinese leaders there to make hostile political capital out of the friendly statements on Chino-Japanese relations made recently by the Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and General Chiang Kaishek. In friendly personal conversations I convinced these Chinese leaders that it would be a tragic blunder, harmful alike to the Chinese and Japanese peoples, to make a football for domestic Chinese politics out of the growing rapprochement between our two great nations. Eventually I discovered that the Southwest leaders are as keenly...
Every Dictator bedevils his people with improvements and in Nanking shrill, wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has been bedeviling Chinese schoolgirls into skirts. Last week skirted schoolgirls humbly petitioned: "At least in cold weather we beg permission to wear the warm trousers to which we were accustomed. Our new garments have resulted in cold legs...
Inflexible, Nanking authorities rejected the petition, added that schoolgirls will also do well to observe more scrupulously General Chiang's edict against bobbed hair...
That such terms are even being considered by Generalissimo Chiang and Premier Wang constitutes almost a double bend of the Chinese Government Whalebone. But can China lose? In the past Japan has often tried to loan her way to Chinese hegemony, pouring into China over $3,000,000,000 with all sorts of strings attached, strings which subsequent Chinese Governments blandly snap. In Manhattan what could be called the reaction of informed U. S. tycoons accustomed to doing business with China was neatly capsuled by the Herald Tribune thus: "If she [China] is left to her own devices...