Word: meng
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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...
...last, at a plenary session of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee, the girls found listeners. "I can't speak," said lissome Meng Yen, her eyes moist with emotion. "I can only use my tears to express my feelings...
...Meng Chiang. The Japanese also dreamed of redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...
...uniquely distinguished representatives of China's culture, both U.S.-edu-cated, were present at the dedication. Ex-officio director of China House, as director of the China Institute, is Dr. Meng Chih, 44, onetime student at North Carolina's Davidson College and a Columbia A.M. An astute and affable patriot and educator, Dr. Meng is a descendant of China's great philosopher of democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance...
...have been a proud, fierce people. They have fought Chinese and Japanese with equal stubbornness. Just as stubbornly they have fought among themselves. Outer Mongolia fell under Soviet influence; then Inner Mongolia, stretching north from China's Great Wall to the Gobi, became the Japanese puppet state of Meng-Chiang...