Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...P.W.s was a catastrophic blow to Communist prestige. The immensity of that blow could be measured in the reaction of the Indians on the scene, dumfounded at the discovery that prisoners might be defiant to the death against Communists and not simply (as they thought) coerced by Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Mark Clark...
Britain's Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee tried last week to explain why the Chinese Communists should be admitted to the U.N. Admission is not a privilege, he declared, but a recognition of fact. "The fact is that China is not governed by Chiang Kaishek, but by the present government." He was convinced that "generally speaking," the Communists would subscribe to U.N. principles...
Died. Edwin Goodman, 76, chairman and co-founder of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman (women's specialty shop), where he personally attended to the wants of the world's rich and royal (e.g., Madame Chiang Kaishek, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. John Jacob Astor); in Manhattan...
...Senator from California lunges from one meeting to another with the air of a fullback heading for the goal line. He is not much of a rough & tumble debater, but his set speeches are well written, forcefully delivered. Because of his consistent bathe for more U.S. aid to Chiang Kaishek, his detractors have fitted him with a label: "The Senator from Formosa...
...when he started his used-car business there. Seven years later he opened a lot in Los Angeles. As a speculation, he bought 13 new, war-stranded, right-hand-drive cars which had been built for the Orient, including a custom-built Lincoln intended for Chiang Kaishek. When Los Angeles papers ran stories about the cars, Muntz sold the entire lot in two weeks without even unpacking all the crates, made a tidy profit...