Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance. Last week he accepted the resignation of orthodox. Harvard-graduated Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, the only man who has ever balanced Republican China's budget...
...bankers on the run. The famed budget of Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong-a Chinese marvel because it balanced last year for the first time in the history of the Republic (TIME. Jan. 2)- teetered as the Government admitted a $10,000,000 current deficit and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek demanded of his brother-in-law, Dr. Soong, an additional $18,000,000 to pay his troops...
...Sell $18,000,000 of bonds at once!" urged Generalissimo Chiang, according to Shanghai gossip. "I must have the money...
...eyed, stubble-haired T. V. (Tse-vungj) Soong, left war-torn China last April to see what the world thought of China v. Japan. While he was talking in clipped Harvard English in the Foreign Offices of the U. S., Britain, Germany, France and Italy, his superior, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, made truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). Since then Japanese have loudly applauded Chiang's ''reasonableness," confessed their "satisfaction"' with the attitude of Huang Fu, chief of the North China Political Council. Japanese diplomacy was making rapid headway among Nanking officials. Pacific-minded Premier Wang...
While Minister Soong was away, famed "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang had been active too. Big and bluff, he is a typical North Chinese but he has the nimble brains of such Southerners as Chiang Kaishek. When last month he suddenly ended his bluff as Commander-in-Chief of a People's National Salvation Anti-Japanese Army, pocketed the People's contributions and showed a smiling face in Peiping, he announced that he was going into retirement on the Sacred Mountain of Taishan, in Shantung. Last week his smiling face emerged Cheshire Cat-like again from...