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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said so was none other than Founder Sun Yat-sen's stocky and genial son, Dr. Sun Fo, liberal president of China's Legislative Yuan. The forum for his denunciation of one-party misrule in China was none other than a meeting of that party-the all-powerful Kuomintang, which regards Dr. Sun Fo as its leading left-winger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sun for Enlightenment | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...cages of the First International Bank (deposits: $1,397,916.66) were so crowded that Cashier O. N. Stenehjem greeted depositors at his own desk. Said he: "Our main trouble is finding a place fo invest all this money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH DAKOTA: The Good Years | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Japan? China's faith in democracy was not for herself alone but for all Asia, including her mortal foe. On this same, solemn day, Sun Fo, son of the "sainted Sun Yatsen, now President of the Legislative Yuan, called for a republic in postwar Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Double Ten | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...himself married and we had a little guzzling party on him at the OXFORD before the nuptials. CHESTER TRAVEL STEAD proposed several toasts to the happy couple and the guzzling began. . . . I never ate so many pretzels in one hour before. . . . NO, Dear, I only had one (Lord fo-give me) . . . CHARLEY RITT is going to do it this coming week so I'll have to eat some more pretzels. . . Are they fattening...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam | 6/18/1943 | See Source »

...Yorkshire munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers are beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Yon Fo Gret Blu Form Bel | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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