Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some...
...squelch pesky Communists (see col. 3), Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek authorized last week a special subsidy of 600,000 Shanghai dollars ($200,000) per month to Chinese generals supplying troops to fight the Reds...
Next the lean, high-strung Generalissimo conferred with his moon-faced low-strung brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, easy-going Finance Minister. Shanghai buzzed with rumors that President Roosevelt's upping of the price of silver was about to force Chiang and Kung to take China's standard dollar off its white metal base...
...Such an act would not benefit either the Government or the people," abruptly announced Chiang. "The Government will not devalue or adopt a paper standard for the currency...
Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...