Word: fo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fo...
...fortnight ago, China's National Assembly overwhelmingly elected Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek President of China. Then they turned to the election of a Vice President. At first, everything was smooth as cream. At the Dragon Gate restaurant, delegates sipped tea with Candidate Sun Fo, whose father was Sun Yatsen, hero of the revolution, and who was second only to the Gimo in Kuomintang prestige. Four other aspirants were equally polite and formal...
...outsider, not one of the Nanking inner circle like Sun Fo. Though he was famed as the Chinese commander who had smashed two Japanese divisions at the battle of Taierhchuang in 1938, he had had no active field command since V-J day. Obviously, he was not the Gimo's choice. There were roots of distrust reaching back to 1929 when Li led a brief defection of Kwangsi generals. But his strong words made him a rallying point for all the non-Communist dissatisfaction in China-intellectuals, army officers, northerners whose lands had been overrun by the Reds...
When the results were announced (Li: 1,438; Sun Fo: 1,295), assemblymen went wild. They picked up smiling Madame Li, carried her shoulder-high. On the streets, where crowds had listened to the balloting at corner radios, firecrackers popped and crackled in celebration. The cheering throng surged to Li's headquarters, jubilantly hoisted the general aloft. Exulted a delegate: "Very good! We voted against the government...
Hattie's scripts are written in English, but she dishes them out in purest pidgin. Sample: ''Dis program we make fo' any kind people who like sing, kani kani pila [music], talk-story. Baby can try, school chiren can try and even if you makule [old] still okay. No need be sham...