Word: kung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic...
...skill was in small, mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung. They, too, were keen. Dr. Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese), promised $3,000,000 more. On Aug. 5, 1938, the leaders met and constituted themselves as a central committee of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Fittingly this economic defense against Japanese penetration was born in the commandeered building...
Sweeping across the U. S. last week was the latest fad, successor to Knock-knock, Where's Elmer?. Handies, etc.: Anything too silly or salacious to say right out was being dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts...
...raided an illicit wireless station which had been sending messages in code over a magnificently complete, exceedingly expensive transmitter. Six young men were arrested, arraigned, fined $16,000. Court records did not list the name of Prince David; but last week British authorities admitted unofficially that David Kung had been politely but firmly asked to leave Hong Kong just after the raid. He went briefly to Manila, then disappeared. Confucius really did say: "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance; if one must travel, it should be in a fixed direction." Dopesters guessed...
...Kung's party and his hopes were both premature. For his foreign friends' benefit he chose the Occidental New Year. Not until last week did 400,000,000-odd other Chinese celebrate the passage from rabbit to dragon. The old year's record made new year hopes look pale...