Word: kung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor Ho Chi-Kung of Peiping urged Chinese to multiply more rapidly, last week, after discovering to his surprise and chagrin that the population of China has remained stationary at about 400,000,000 for the past two centuries...
Minister of Industry H. H. Kung...
While in Peking Mayor Ho Chi-kung last week ordered all native women under 50 to bob their hair forthwith, or pay a "degeneracy...
...casualties but sustained only 41. They claimed that the Nanking soldiers gave provocation for this punishment by looting in the Japanese quarter and by raping Japanese women. The Nankingese declared that the Japanese had not only fired upon them without provocation but had seized Nanking Special Commissioner Tsai-Kung-Sze, cut off his nose, gouged out his eyes, shot him dead and burned down a building over...
...China "the three Soong sisters" are ladies of polite renown. The first is the wife of H. H. Kung, a gentleman whose august destiny is summed up in the fact that he claims to be a lineal descendant of Confucius. The second was internationally known as the wife, and later as the revered widow, of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "sainted" founder of the Nationalist movement. She is now reported married (TIME, Oct. 10) to her late husband's zealous co-worker Chen Yu-jen ("Eugene Chen"), until recently Foreign Minister to the defunct Hankow Nationalist Government (TIME, April...