Word: kai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Identify definitely, but briefly, each of the following: 1. Jose Maria Moncada; 2. Chiang-Kai-Shek; 3. John Roach Straton; 4. M. Bleriot; 5. Frank R. McCoy; 6. Henri Wilhelm Deterding; 7. Alvan T. Fuller...
President of China Chiang Kai-shek cabled urgently, last week, to the China Famine Relief Fund, 205 East 42nd St., New York City. "Funds must be raised and forwarded immediately," cabled he, "if great loss of life is to be prevented...
With four soldiers clinging to hand grips on the sides of his limousine, and with two more soldiers on the box behind, President Chiang Kai-shek sped to the scene. As the mob of students sullenly parted to let him through, and then closed in behind, Marshal Chiang faced a nasty situation. The so-called "students" are really a conglomeration of all the younger and more violent partisans of the Nationalist regime. They would have to be wooed and harangued, not bluntly ordered to disperse...
...revolt spontaneously and went over to the Nationalists as Generalissimo Chiang's armies approached. Largely by such means and with very little fighting the Southern half of China was absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist Revolution, and today no man is oftener reviled and burned in effigy at Moscow than he ? except perhaps Great Britain's gaunt, bemonocled Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (195,000 men). With Marshal Feng's potent aid, Marshal Chiang accomplished the capture of Peking last Spring (TIME, June 4); and since then, with all China at least nominally subservient to Nationalism, the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek...