Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's City Hall, he denied that he planned to resign because of poor health. Eleanor Roosevelt and Sister Kenny were named by a Gallup poll as the two women most admired by the U.S. public. Others, in order of finish: Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Margaret Truman...
...that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery ended. They did not bother to overthrow this [Nationalist] government. There was really nothing to overthrow. They simply ignored it throughout the country . . . The Communists did not create ... a great force which moved out from under Chiang Kaishek. But they were shrewd and cunning to mount it, to ride this thing into victory and power...
There was one voice, sadder in its tone and firmer in its faith than all the others, which spoke out on Formosa this week in the eloquence of personal tragedy. Madame Chiang Kaishek, wife of the beleaguered leader of anti-Communist China, sat before a microphone in her brother-in-law's New York home to say her farewell to the U.S. before leaving to rejoin her husband on Formosa. Said...
...politician and his uneasy stepbrother, the soldier. Change churned up elemental issues of human freedom and organization that had to be fought out in the politicians' arena. Some of the politicians were of a familiar parliamentary type: Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Clemenceau. Some were soldier-politicians: Chiang Kaishek, Kâmâl Atatürk. Some were agitators and conspirators: Lenin, Stalin, Tito, Mao Tse-tung. One, Gandhi, was a saintly organizer. Some-Mussolini, Hitler-were pure dynasts, dealing with dark power drives deep in the spirit...