Word: fu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deserted Chang Tso-lin to join with Wu Pei-fu, war lord rival of Chang Tso-lin. He rejoined Chang Tso-lin and served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang...
...cricket fields and gaming tables, or drifted from Paris hotels to Manhattan hotels, from London to the Isle of Guernsey or the British West Indies, usually fetching up at Monte Carlo or Cannes. There he hobnobbed with other well-heeled amiable drifters such as Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Sax (Fu Manchu) Rohmer, P. G. Wodehouse, the King & Queen of Siam, the King of Sweden, Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most beautiful figure...
Robert Kagan '44, Roland Kahn '43, Brian Kiely '43, Charles E. Kitchen '42, Marvin A. Klemes '42, Leif L. '42, Robert A. Koch '44, Robert W. Komer '42, Freeman Fu-Chang Kee '42, Herbert J. Kramer...
From the mouthpiece of a mouthpiece, Puppet Wang's Finance Minister Chou Fu-hai, came the real reason for Wang's junket, the act behind the ballyhoo. It took the form of three suggestions that were certainly not impure ideas. Chou hoped that Japan would: 1) extend Nanking's power north and south; 2) control business less stringently; 3) change the form of Japanese-Chinese joint industries so that Chinese might be induced to invest in them...
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