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...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...
...Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss Li. "Never!" cried...
Chinese and Japanese of small means banded together in huis (syndicates), pooling their resources and promoting business enterprises. A former social service worker, Hung Wai Ching, organized his friends and swung a $320,000 deal to acquire Honolulu's gaudy Lau Yee Chai nightclub. With Ruddy Tongg, one of the most successful of the new promoters. Hung has recently started Transpacific Air Lines (inter-island). Ruddy Tongg owns a printing and publishing business in Oahu and cattle ranches on Hawaii. Chin Ho, another Chinese, organized the company which purchased the Waianae sugar plantation on Oahu...