Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shanghai a group of Chinese who still call themselves the "Nationalist Government" went through the mummery, last week, of breaking off relations with Soviet Russia. Their famed Chiang Kaishek, onetime Nationalist generalissimo and conqueror of half China said: "I intend to exert my full strength to bring peace within the Nationalist territories in order to enable the re-oranization of the Nationalist government and provide for the active resumption of warfare against Marshal Chang Tso-lin [Dictator of North China], who must be eliminated before China will become peaceful...
...thousand pompously arrayed Chinese witnessed the marriage, in Shanghai last week, of the defeated but honorably esteemed Marshal Chiang Kaishek, resigned generalissimo of the now scattered Nationalist armies which, under his leadership, once conquered half of holy China (TIME, Aug. 22 et ante...
...Like her brother, T. V. Soong, Harvard '15, she has been closely identified with the Hankow Nationalist Government in which he was Finance Minister. In person she is charming, in mentality alert, in speech sometimes caustic. Observers, knowing her passionate Nationalist zeal, wondered if she married Chiang Kaishek, last week, with intent to rouse him from retirement to renewed leadership of a Nationalist military force...
...came in the dense blackness between midnight and dawn?for in China one who has "lost face" does well to hide his features. A 'faithful secretary would say only: "General Chiang Kaishek is with his family here and is going into retirement indefinitely, seeking rest following a year of superhuman efforts to further the nationalist cause...
...tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...