Word: mei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling's father, famed "Old Charlie" Soong, had made his fortune as a pioneer in printing and selling Bibles to Chinese as fast as the missionaries created a demand. Investing his profits at about 40% Chinese interest, he died a merchant prince. Old Mrs. Soong had not forgotten that her late...
...nowhere, mines from nowhere, planes from nowhere in a land where every gesture is a tradition; for advancing national progress and a New Life in spite of centuries of worship and changelessness, all credit belongs to the Couple of the Year, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling Chiang...
Madame Chiang, as Mei-ling Soong, graduated from Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., in 1917, as you state in your issue of Jan. 25. She came to Macon, Ga., however, as a little girl of 10 with her sisters. (Madame H. H. Kung, Soong Eling, graduated at Wesleyan in 1909; Madame Sun Yatsen, Soong Ching-ling...
...young to enter college, Mei-ling was allowed to make her home in the college dormitory. Her name appears in the matriculation book with her sisters' names in 1908: "Mei-ling Soong, Shanghai, China, aged 10." She was privately tutored by a member of the faculty, Miss Margie Burks. During the next four years she spent most of her time under the tutelage of Miss Burks. One year she was at school at Demorest, Ga., in a junior college. In 1912-13 she was regularly enrolled as a freshman at Wesleyan College, and successfully completed the work of this...
...following year, both older sisters having returned to China, Mei-ling went to Wellesley. One of her brothers was studying at Harvard at the time, and the family wished her to be nearer...