Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madame Chiang Kai-shek had triumphed in Washington before. This time it looked as if everything was against...
...Chinese officials was on hand to greet her. But the welcome turned into something like a bargain-basement sale. The crowd pushed, photographers struggled. George Marshall was conspicuously absent; he had gone to Walter Reed Hospital with an old kidney ailment. Mrs. George Marshall took Madame Chiang firmly by the arm, led her past the microphones of protesting radio men and into a State Department Cadillac...
There was more confusion when the disappointed brigade of newsreel cameramen and reporters arrived at Dodona Manor, the Marshalls' Leesburg, Va. home. The Marshall houseman told them that Madame Chiang had requested two days of privacy. Madame Chiang, however, soon sent word that she would willingly be photographed, came outside to chat and pose...
Though she was obviously tired (she dislikes air travel, complained that her eardrums "were about to burst"), she talked with animation. At one point she remarked: "Today is my wedding day." Her hostess said, "Is that so? We'll have to have a celebration." Said Madame Chiang: "Just being here is my celebration...
...Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Wellesley '13, may not got a United States loan, but she may very well wind up with a high-paying job if Miss Harriet Oxehham, Wellesley '47, has anything to say about it. She sent a letter yesterday to the college's Board of Trustees urging that the Missimo succeed Mildred McAfee Horton as president on the latter's retirement this June...