Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Has the Government started something it is not going to finish?" angrily at Nanking last week boomed massive "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang who, born a peasant and still a peasant, delights to shame more refined Chinese officials when he can. There was last week no getting around the fact...
After further fiddling around, Mr. Soong announced that he was not going to be Premier, and apparently Premier Chiang slipped back into all his offices, including that which brings in $3,500,000 per month from opium. All China was meanwhile being violently jolted out of thinking about the recent...
Meanwhile, last week in Nanking the recently kidnapped Dictator and his erstwhile kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, held in great privacy under heavy military guard a long conference about what were described as "their private interests." That the Kidnapper and Kidnappee should have private interests was enough to prime...
A delay was occasioned by the death of an obscure 63-year-old brother of the Dictator, who "had to attend the funeral." Suspecting that something even screwier than what had been arranged was now afoot, friends of the Young Marshal went about swearing that he was ''not...
A Sian official for Texas Co., one George Fitch, contributed to the dispute by arriving in Nanking to say that, so far as he knew, the persons principally concerned (Dictator Chiang, Mme Chiang, Brother Soong, Adviser Donald and the Young Marshal) got out of Sian only by a ruse in...