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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Off with the Dance | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...kin to Washington Columnist Robert S. Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So I Took the $50,000 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Questions for the Sages. In the auditorium of Nanking's Officers' Moral Endeavor Association last week, Chinese witnesses and the dead men's kin were doing their best to help the court-martial try Corporal Aldrich. U.S. authorities hoped the Chinese would be impressed with the fairness and exactness of American justice. But the Chinese frankly found the procedure somewhat opaque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Inscrutable Americans | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...confused with Sarah Lawrence's president, Harold Taylor, no kin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Supply & Demand | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...anxiety over the veterans themselves, Congress did not forget the veterans' kin. One bill started the ball rolling on designs for a "Gold Star Lapel Button." Parents of men killed in World War II will get them free; brothers and sisters, at cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Bonanza | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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