Word: mme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most potent men in China, one of the most trusted advisers of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, is "Organizer Chen Li-fu" as he likes to be called. In organizing the "New Life Movement," the "Culture Control Movement" and other causes dear to the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang right down to the "Read-a-Book Movement," no Chinese has won more kudos than Organizer Chen. Last week Hankow correspondents asked the Great Organizer to confirm or deny persistent rumors in high Chinese quarters that he has been advising the Generalissimo to make peace with Japan. Replied Chen Li-fu: "Our fundamental policy...
...stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters in the interior, Mme. Chiang flew to Chengtu, northwest of Chungking...
...mental struggle that went on within the independent Chapayev before he accepted the civilian, as an equal has been strongly painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
...RITZ-Mme Marie Ritz-Lippincott...
...pallid President Henry Noble MacCracken named the five Most Intelligent Women in the World: Angelica Balanbanoff, internationalist, author of My Life As a Rebel (TIME, Aug. 1); Halidé Edib, Turkish patriot, onetime Professor of Western Literature at Istanbul University; Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, friend & adviser of Mahatma Gandhi; Mme Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt...