Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On hundreds of millions of lips last week was the name of a most unhappy woman, Mme Chiang. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio in...
Only the decisive assassination of Premier Chiang would raise his kidnapping much above this indicated status. Even then Young Chang might have in mind simply taking over the whole scheme, or one like it, and attempting to carry it through with a dope addict's overweening confidence in himself...
In Nanking there were still plenty of Chinese generals left, and the Government bustled about getting off troop trains in the general direction of Sian. Ensuing dispatches grossly contradicted each other. In one of these the Young Marshal's friends succeeded in kidnapping the Generalissimo's wife and...
The Christian Premier anticipates that rivers of Chinese blood will remain unshed at an expense in silver dollars measurably less than what it would cost China to buy the weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined...
When Sportsmen Harkness & Griswold reached China early last year, the Government refused them permission to enter the giant panda's wild, bandit-infested habitat. Alone, Harkness boarded a Shanghai train at Nanking, vanished. Fortnight later, a U. S. Marshal found him in a Shanghai hotel, registered under an assumed...