Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking last week political experts sipped cups of scalding tea and discussed the possibility of a Japanese peace offensive. Japan's militarists, the Chungkingers reasoned, know that Axis defeat is inevitable, hence hope to drive a bargain with the Allies...
Winston Churchill, Generalissimo & Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin were among the rare birds whose watercolor portraits (after John James Audubon) were shown in Manhattan's Raymond & Raymond gallery last week (see cut). Their natures were suitably described by their caricaturist, 31-year-old San Franciscan Justin Murray...
Chungking announced a new exchange rate for foreigners: Chinese dollars, hitherto 20 to one U.S. dollar, hereafter would be 40-to-1.
A Chungking spokesman reported that crewmen from a U.S. submarine had landed at Newchwang, Manchuria, and purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of...
A group of Tibetan monks, visiting Chungking last week, brought news from Lhasa. They reported that God's spiritual representative on earth, Tanchu, the eight-year-old Dalai Lama, is a holy prodigy. The monks said that four years of intensive training have made him a towering force in...