Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading nominations for Man of the Year, running in order listed, are: Senator Burton K. Wheeler, John L. Lewis, Charlie McCarthy, Chiang Kaishek, Justice Hugo L. Black, Surgeon General Thomas Parran...
...military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang's Own"-the famed 88th Division of Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Japanese troops, advancing at sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British position in Shanghai's International Settlement. As Japanese light artillery poured converging fire into the warehouse, it flamed in world headlines...
...expense two large hospitals for Chinese wounded and establishing a third. "No mention has been made of this publicly before in the face of the gallantry of our soldiers in giving life and limb for their country," said Mr. Soong, brother-in-law of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. "To try to snatch credit from our soldiers would be indecent...
Chinese women meanwhile sacrificed for Liberty their wedding rings and gold trinkets at the behest of their Premier's able wife, Radiorating Mme Chiang Kaishek. To the many earmarks, minute or mighty, of this Great War last week Shanghai actuaries added finally a careful estimate that property damage there already exceeds $750,000,000. This is three times greater than the total of losses at Shanghai caused by Japan's attack there...
...only heads of states whose wives last week were writing regularly for the New York daily press were Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese Premier & Generalissimo was holding out at Nanking, his frequently bombed capital (see p. 22). and the diary which Mme Chiang began cabling to Manhattan's Herald Tribune last week was in a different class from Mrs. Roosevelt's description of such events as how last week a baby bear reared up on its hind legs and might have scratched the side of the President's car had it not moved...