Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assistant Editors: Jeanne-Marie North (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Tam Martinides Gray (Research Deputy), Oscar Chiang, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Lois Gilman, Adrianne Jucius Navon...
...shortchanged Lindbergh after he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic earlier that year, they named him Man of the Year. The idea caught on, and among Lindy's successors have been such men as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and such women as Wallis Simpson and Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
Reporter-Researchers: Rosemary Byrnes, Oscar Chiang, Adrianne Jucius Navon (Senior Staff); Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Sribala Subramanian...
...commercial empire that Tokyo called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. On Sept. 27, 1940, Konoye joined the Axis powers, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, in a formal alliance known as the Tripartite Pact. He demanded that Britain shut down the Burma Road, supply route for aid to Chiang, and that Vichy accept Japanese bases in Indochina for a southern attack on Chiang...
...Japan had installed a pro-Japanese regime in Nanking, but U.S. aid enabled Chiang to fight on. Konoye began wondering about mediators to end the exasperating war that Tokyo insisted on calling the Chinese Incident. Where angels fear to tread, in rushed the missionary fathers of the Maryknoll Society, who guilelessly assured each side that the other seemed ready to talk. And so talks began in Washington in the spring...