Word: huang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guerrillas have to keep on the move, waging hectic hit-and-run warfare, and messages from their commanders last week were reaching Nanking, the Chinese Capital, as much as a fortnight late. As the chief hit-and-run generals, emerged "Red Napoleon" Chu Teh and "100 Victories" Wei Li-huang. They were harassing the Japanese shoulder to shoulder last week, although four years ago the Chinese Government was offering $100,000 for the "Red Napoleon" alive or $80,000 for him dead; and the "100 Victories" (more or less) which earned General Wei his soubriquet were won in skirmishes aimed...
...famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, General Yen Hsi-shan officially abdicated his command to General Huang...
...Communist leader in 1937. Last week as spring burgeoned, the Chinese people prepared to celebrate anew their Ching Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these 4,532 years. But some Nanking bureaucrat dispatched an invitation, just in case...
...Kuei Chen, who was born in Shanghai, educated at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins, and is now Eli Lilly & Co.'s director of pharmacological research, last week celebrated a new triumph. In the past he showed that the Chinese shrub Ma Huang was good, ancient medicine because the ephedrine which it contains relieves congestion in cold-ridden noses and stimulates poky hearts. He showed that toad venom was good, ancient medicine because it contains unusual concentrations of cholesterol, ergosterol, bufagin, bufotoxin and bufotenine...
Breathlessly Nanking waited word from General Huang Mu-sung. No direct word came from him for weeks, but last week Huang Mu-sung was back in Nanking, his yellow face wreathed in smiles. Tibet, he roundly swore, was ready to forget 21 years of estrangement from China, would now cooperate fully with the Nationalist Government...