Word: kaies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Japan's warships, all her guns, for all her planes, for all her 10,000 sol diers and sailors, Shanghai's Chinese de fenders under pale slender little General Tsai Ting-kai were doggedly holding...
...Finance Minister since the Revolution who has been able to get enough money together to run a central government. Smiling Chiang was still the most powerful military leader in China. The temporary government under pudgy Cantonese "Premier" Dr. Sun Fo could get nowhere. It was forced to beg Chiang Kai-shek to return. That he did last week as acknowledged head of the Chinese Army. Next move was the resignation of Sun Fo. He took with him Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, received promises of support from General Shen Ming-shu, commander of the troops stationed in Shanghai. Sneered Chen...
...initiate, guide and counsel local movements. Principle was to build them up, then turn them over to local secretaries. Today 600 native leaders and 100 Americans carry on the work. Particularly proud of its Chinese record is Y. M. C. A. In the Cabinet of ex-President Chiang Kai-shek two years ago, six of the members were former Y-secretaries. Said Secretary Harmon last year: ''We regard this work as an invention in the realm of social and spiritual life just as much as the telephone and electric light is in the scientific life, and these secretaries...
...crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government...
Japan's $1,000,000,000. In the light of Old Uncle Chang's emergence and the resignation of President Chiang Kai-shek (see above"] the first interview granted to Tokyo correspondents last week by Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai lost much of its quaint, cackling obscurity, became significant and fairly clear. With a bony forefinger the white-bearded Premier traced an imaginary map of Manchuria on the jade-green cover of the table behind which...