Word: ching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organizer of the procession was the man in charge of defending the new gold yuan currency in Shanghai, deputy economic controller Major General Chiang Ching-kuo, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Russian-educated elder son. A chubby, earnest man who looks much younger than his 39 years, Chiang believes in going to the people. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons he holds open house in his office in Shanghai's Central Bank of China to hear the public's complaints...
...Please Do Something." One recent Thursday, the suppliants in Chiang Ching-kuo's office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products...
...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...reasons for his "disinclination" to appear: "The cavilings of the bar and bench . . . will consume a tedious time. . . . Two members of your board [Taylor and Ethridge] are biased and prejudiced. . . . [Taylor] is inherently incapable of determining the distinction between a fact and a scruple. ... In attendance is Ching [Cyrus Ching, Federal conciliator], a truly remarkable man, who sees through the eyes of United States Rubber." The board read the letter and subpoenaed him. Still John declined to appear. Then Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech ordered him hauled into court...
...fiction of a "vacation" was maintained because Lewis could not legally order a strike. In Washington he stalked in & out of conferences while outsize Cyrus Ching, the Government's chief conciliator, beamed on him hopefully, tried to drag him into a meeting with the coal operators...