Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich expatriate Chinese have contributed millions of dollars to the cause of President Chiang Kaishek. Astute, he has just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...
...known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property. He wants to be Emperor of China...
Just as wasp-waisted President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...
President Hoover has not yet been burned in effigy at Moscow, differing in this respect from Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain* and the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek. But last week both Mr. Hoover and ex-Chairman Alexander Legge of the U. S. Federal Farm Board became in Moscow popular candidates for stuffing & burning. Reason: "The Hoover Plot against the Soviet Union...
...Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius...