Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little paragraph in U. S. newspapers last week was as significant to students of China as anything that has happened in Manchuria or Shanghai: the 30th and 31st Divisions of Marshal Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist Army were defeated by Communist troops in upper Yangtze Valley and prudently deserted to the Communist side...
...Japanese invasion of Shanghai six months ago, blew the lid off last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China (his own territory) and his failure to provide more determined...
From the courthouse steps at Poplarville, Miss., short, scarred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, stormy onetime Governor of Mississippi, watched a U. S. deputy marshal sell his $50,000 "dream house," 3,000-acre estate and 400-acre pecan orchard for $500 and court costs. Reason for the sale: to satisfy a judgment in favor of a bank receiver. Asked whether he would make a bid at the sale. Lawyer Bilbo snapped: "Will you supply the money...
Observers wondered if Publishers McCormick & Patterson were not eliminating their Detroit expense in order to marshal all available cash resource to the Chicago Tribune's battle against the Daily News (TIME...
...their puppet Manchurian state called "Manchoukuo" (TIME, March 21), they claimed that General Tang brought his vast, wild territory into the new state at that time. More recently General Tang has shown a disposition to consider himself loyal to the Chinese Government represented in Peiping by young Marshal Chang...